We got back from Venice yesterday, after a few days walking around the city.
A strange trip, lots of great buildings and okay weather - but the food was awful. Being half-Italian, I was shocked. It wasn’t cheap either.
Enough complaining, here are the photos…
You can see the photos a little larger under the photos page.
Hear ye! Hear ye!
My 360 came back! Which is great, so I can dig into COD3, Table Tennis and MotoGP. And I picked up my vision cam as well - which like all 360 accessories came in packaging that took a knife and a good 10 minutes to open. Why do they do this?
Hopefully I’ll get my Gears on at the weekend.
Today Softimage announced the imminent release of XSI v6.0. Yey!
Details on the features are at a pretty high level at the moment, so only cover the big stuff but there are loads of bits in there for everyone. Obviously, I have been using this release for a little while now, and am really excited to see it go out of the door soon.
As a little sneak peak, you may have seen the QuickShade rendering video on softimage.com, and noticed they change the shaderball model. In fact this is so easy to do, here is a picture of a (fun) shaderball test in the new Material Manager… now that’s what I call shaderballs!
(Sorry, but this particular shaderball isn’t included as standard, but I like it better than looking at Apples all day.)
(from letskilldave.com)
I am still having fun with this great search engine front page. Basically its a flash site powered by Windows Live Search, that has a presenter that adds her own twist on your search queries. If you are feeling brave, you can ask her some personal questions as well.
Although not designed for a long research period, its great for the odd search.
Here are a few of my favourite searches…
It is great to see Microsoft having a bit of fun on the web.
