Note: The previous post, Desert Bound, was originally posted on 2009-08-29. That information was accidentally omitted.


Originally posted on 2009-10-19.

I am back. I have been back for a long time. Burning Man was a _ton_ of fun and I met alot of great people there. Pictures are up in the photo gallery. 'Surviving' wasn't too hard, we ended up being well prepared for most things except the party ;).

I started playing around with the XNA Framework for Windows (and xbox, but I haven't payed for the XNA Premium Content subscription) while learning C# as a programming language. Can't say I know alot about the language yet - it's similar enough to Java and C/++ that I can just hack away. I'm a long time eclipse user and lover of man-pages but the Visual Express 2008 IDE makes not knowing anything really easy with integrated information on just about everything. I'm practicing by trying to make a more complex version of the game Snakes (just in 2D though); however, I wouldn't be surprised if it never saw the light of day.

Fantasy Flight Games has released a new game, Rogue Trader, and is close to releasing the Ascension rule-book for the Dark Heresy game. I am extremely excited about these, especially since Rogue Trader is support to integrate almost seamlessly with Dark Heresy.

In other news, the F.E. exam is this Saturday. I'm nervous, and given the amount of studying I've done it seems unlikely that I will do well.