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2008 1

  1. Help Me Out Contest #1

2007 128

  1. Leaving the ACES/FlightSim Team...
  2. FSX: What is the Difference Between the Water 2.X Low/Mid/High/Max Settings?
  3. EasyBarcode and Parctical .NET2 and C#2 Free with TrialPay
  4. Flight Simulator X Acceleration/SP2 - Water DX10 vs DX9
  5. Neat Way to Generate Indirect Software Sales.
  6. FSX Acceleration/SP2 - DX9 Bloom Versus DX10 HDR...
  7. FSX Acceleration Reviews are Comming In!
  8. Press Release - Paradoxal Press Announces New Books on Computer Programming
  9. Practical .NET2 and C#2 is Finally Available for Sale!
  10. Extender for Windows Media Center Launch at DigitalLife 2007
  11. FSX - SP2 and DX10 Performance
  12. FSX DX10 - Self Shadowing VCs (DX9 vs DX10 Update)
  13. FSX DX10 - Self Shadowing VCs
  14. FSX Acceleration, FSX SP2, Direct X10 Support... Time to Dispell the Myths...
  15. Moving my Main Blog From MSDN to WWW.SebbyLive.Com
  16. Announcement: Practical .NET2 and C#2 Second Edition!!
  17. Nice Little Scam... Didn't Know I was that Important?!?!
  18. Humor: Breaking News! Halo to Take Over the World!
  19. Interesting AvSim post in regards to FSX and hardware upgrades...
  20. Which Pole am I on These Days?
  21. The ACES Team is Moving!!!
  22. Oddball Spam Email I got Today.
  23. I so Wish GMail had an API!!
  24. Flight Simulator X Acceleration Pack: The Word is Spreading...
  25. How a Simple Auction Turned into Viral Marketing...
  26. Really Cool Fan FSX Video.... Check it Out!
  27. Wow, Time Sure Flies By! 08/12 Update...
  28. Analyst: Xbox 360 Price Cut Coming? --- Hmm.. Who are you to say?
  29. Hey, I got my Very Own General Attorney General Letter!
  30. Interesting 4th of July Holiday.
  31. Why is Google Tageting me Like This?
  32. People Should Get a Pair of Glasses When They Open an eBay Account!
  33. My Medication and Constant Sleepiness. How Annoying!
  34. CNC Mill Motors Turning...
  35. CNC Mill Update 06/12... It Turns!!!
  36. What Body Part can I Sell to Pay the Mortgage?
  37. CNC Mill Update 06/03/07... Some Problems :(
  38. Depakote Gone Bad - Part 1
  39. CNC Mill Project Update.
  40. Surface Computing... Neat-O...
  41. My Finger is Going to Hell Again.
  42. Halo Vista Delayed due to Nudity... You'd think engineers would have learned by now!
  43. Never Thought I Would be Scoobalized...
  44. Does Google Have a Double Standard?
  45. Bye-Bye "Brain Zaps"
  46. Little More Work on my CNC Mill
  47. More Details About my "Brain Zaps"
  48. DX10 Hardware Review
  49. FSX SP1 Sure is Generating Lots of Positive Feedback!
  50. FSX Service Pack 1 is now out!!
  51. Health Update
  52. All the CNC Mill Hardware is In. Need to Put it Together...
  53. The Tahoe Devkit is In!
  54. Stitches and Split are Gone. Freeeeedom!
  55. CNC Mill Motor Controller Board is in!
  56. Quick Project Update.
  57. Surgery Went Well...
  58. A Quick Thanks to my Readers...
  59. Postal Rates Going Up Again... Makes me Want to go Postal!
  60. Hardware to Control and Drive Motors
  61. Motor Selection for my CNC Mill
  62. Going Under the Knife!
  63. Google's New ISP Service!
  64. Building my own CNC Mill/Router
  65. 5 Days After my Medecine Adjustment
  66. User Input For Home Automation
  67. First Cellphone Component arrived.
  68. Time for Another Medecine Adjustment.
  69. Are Home 125% Home Equity Loans Too Risky?!?
  70. Misc Update for 04/16... Well 04/17...
  71. Other Accounts of Bipolar People Dealing With Work
  72. Talk About Bad Attitude.
  73. A Little Addition to my Home Automation Project.
  74. Staring a New Hobby Project: Home Automation System
  75. All Websites Finally Back Up!
  76. How Bipolar Affects Work (a study)
  77. www.PracticalDot.Net is back up...
  78. Intel Delivers Its Fastest Enthusiast Quad-Core Processor
  79. Getting a Little Boat.
  80. WebServer Still Down... :(
  81. My WebServer Got Infected!
  82. My First (half) Week Back at Work is Over. How did it go?
  83. My new homepage goes live at SebbyLive.com
  84. General Update, a little bit of everything...
  85. First Day Went Well.
  86. Lotsa Emails.
  87. It's the Final Countdown!
  88. ShaderX6 Call for Authors. Last Call!!!
  89. The Joys of Being a Night-Owl.
  90. Still no Reasons for my Joint Pain.
  91. Interesting Article About Bipolar Cycles.
  92. New Garage Sale Items for 03/27
  93. All the Data is Safe!
  94. New items added to my Garage Sale on 03/26
  95. One Week of Sick Leave Left!!
  96. Raid Data Recovery Update.
  97. Time for a Little Online Garage Sale.
  98. The Bloodwork is in... And other updates...
  99. More Buffalo TeraStation Info
  100. More Tests and Appointments...
  101. ShaderX6 Call for Authors... Second Notice.
  102. Raid Crisis! Part 2
  103. Raid Crisis! Firmware gone bye-bye...
  104. Aches and pain...
  105. ShaderX6 Call for Authors!
  106. The verdict is in...
  107. So wish GDI+ in .NET had a way to write EPS files.
  108. Time for yet another re-evaluation...
  109. Where does all the bills come from?
  110. Can the old HOA and bills leave me behind?!?
  111. Amazon's Mechanical Turk, who would want to participate?
  112. What's the pain?
  113. Day 3 of full dosage of Depakote....
  114. A new version of EasyBarcode is comming up soon.
  115. Owning my own printing press would make publishing easier.
  116. Full dose meds and thoughs about my return to work...
  117. The pointless post...
  118. Has anyone seen my sleep around?
  119. Our house has finally sold!
  120. More about my diagnosis...
  121. What's up with home buyers these days?!?!
  122. It's now been 3 weeks...
  123. FSX - Simulation Game of the Year!!!
  124. My old house is back up for sale!
  125. Away from work... For a while...
  126. Chooo! Choooo!
  127. My townhome is gone... Yay!
  128. Talk about a "BIG" Flight Sim X Review!

2006 98

  1. Update on selling my townhouse...
  2. I got the powah!
  3. Bad weather, no power...
  4. My old house is now for sale!!
  5. Happy B-Day To Me!
  6. What's up with the weather this winter!?!?
  7. Flight Simulator X - IGN Review (and performance related issues)
  8. Flight Sim X Mentioned in GQ Magazine
  9. Gizmos For Geeks features FSX!
  10. ParadoxalPress.com and PracticalDot.Net are Down.
  11. Updated FlightSim Website...
  12. Paradoxal Press Spreads the Holiday Cheer!
  13. Call for Authors: ShaderX6 - Advanced Rendering
  14. The Flight Sim Group Is Hiring...
  15. FSX Sales Still Strong on Amazon.com
  16. Can FSX Shaders Be Edited?
  17. Been Gone Again...
  18. FSX Review - GamesRadar.com
  19. Flight Sim is #1 on Amazon.
  20. Lots of FSX Press Coverage...
  21. Back From Vacation...
  22. The Myth of the Sliders, a great post taken from AVSim...
  23. Amazon.com Practical .NET 2 and C# 2 combo for September!
  24. IGN calls out FSX as one of the major releases this fall!!
  25. GameSpot posts an early review of FSX based on Beta Bits...
  26. Back from the hole...
  27. Flight Sim X comming soon and getting lots of press!
  28. eBay... What a load of Crock! Guess Bill Cobb is preparing for his xmas bonus...
  29. Practical .NET 2 and C# 2 now searchable on Amazon.com
  30. FSX voted runner up for Best Simulation at E3!
  31. Xbox 360 inventory shortages over?
  32. Steven Smith's review of Practical .NET2 and C#2
  33. Online Store Automation - Populating Our Store (Part 3)
  34. Gabriel Lozano-Morán (The .NET Aficionado), Practcal .NET2 and C#2 Review
  35. Online Store Automation - Populating Our Store (Part 2)
  36. Peter Moore/Bill Gates Mention FSX at the E3 press conference.
  37. Online Store Automation - Populating Our Store (Part 1)
  38. New fixed-pitch font pack specifically for VS that is optimized for ClearType
  39. Mike Taulty's Review of Practical .NET2 and C#2
  40. Xbox 360 back in stock at BestBuy.com
  41. Larkware.Com's review of Practical .NET2 and C#2
  42. Paradoxal Press books also for sale on eBay and Amazon
  43. Xbox 360 showing back on Amazon.com
  44. More FSX Related Post comming soon.
  45. Weekly Mish-Mash...
  46. Online Store Automation - General Overview
  47. E3 Expo comming up... Can't wait for FSX feedback...
  48. Scott Guthrie takes a quick peek at Visual NDepend
  49. FSX: Questions About The Export Process
  50. Self-Pub: General Update About my Efforts and Paradoxal Press
  51. 1 million Xbox 360 consoles per month! (Sweet!)
  52. (Flight Simulator 10 Animations 101) Part 3 - Controling Model Part Visibility
  53. "Atlas" Control Toolkit Released.
  54. Xbox 360 Hard Disk backup tool
  55. Self-Publishing Update: What’s going on with Paradoxal Press?
  56. Microsoft Releases Free VB 2005 eBook...
  57. (Flight Simulator 10 Animations 101) - Part 2 - Animation Basics, tools and ModelDef.XML
  58. Xbox 360 in stock at BestBuy.com
  59. More about the new Paradoxal Press Online Store
  60. The ACES group is looking for new tallent!
  61. C# Generics
  62. DirectX SDK (April 2006) is now LIVE!
  63. EasyRegex Beta Reminder
  64. Self-Pub: To eBook or Not to eBook?
  65. Software Release: EasyBarcode 1.2
  66. An Interview with Shawn Firminger,ACES Studio Manager for Microsoft Flight Simulator X
  67. (Flight Simulator 10 Animations 101) - Part 1 - Overview and New Features
  68. Flight Sim running on a Mac?!?!
  69. Practical .NET2 and C#2: Event programming with C#
  70. Greg's Cool [Insert Clever Name] of the Day (NDepend 2.0 beta preview)
  71. FSX: Are Multi-Core processors worth it?
  72. Writing C# 2.0 Unsafe Code
  73. Press Release - Paradoxal Press Announces the Official Opening of Their Online Book Store, Offering Over 40,000 Titles at a Discounted Price
  74. C# 2.0 Nullable Types
  75. Practical .NET2 and C#2: An introduction to MSBuild
  76. Wesner Moise takes a look at Practical .NET 2 and C# 2 and takes a peek at VisualNDepend
  77. William Ryan posts his "NET 2.0 Reading List", which includes Practical .NET 2 and C# 2
  78. List of .NET 2.0 and C# 2.0 new features
  79. Flight Simulator X - San Jose Mercury News
  80. Big name reviews for "Practical .NET2 and C#2".
  81. David Hayden talks about "Practical .NET2 and C#2".
  82. Back from the "living dead"...
  83. First Review of Practical .NET2 and C#2!!
  84. Flight Simulator X and DX10?
  85. EasyRegex Update and release of EasyBarcode
  86. EasyRegex, new tool for the avid .NET Regex developer!
  87. Paradoxal Press, 10% off Amazon Sale
  88. Tom Miller's review of "The COMPLETE Effect and HLSL Guide"
  89. Amazon Sales Rank Watcher Version 1.1 is now out...
  90. "Practical .NET2 and C#2" featured on The Code Project
  91. Practical .NET2 and C#2 Now Shipping and on Sale!
  92. Flight Simulator 10 : Shader 2.0, 3.0... Do I need to upgrade my hardware?
  93. Books : "Practical .NET2 and C#2" by Patrick Smacchia
  94. Practical .NET2 and C#2 has arrived!
  95. Farewell Steve Lacey and good luck!
  96. Amazon Sales Rank Watcher (Take 2)
  97. The cat is out of the box (or the plane is our of the hangar)
  98. Author/Self-Pub Tool - Amazon Sales Rank Watcher

2005 37

  1. Paradoxal Press announces “Practical .NET2 and C#2” (ISBN 0-9766132-2-0), a complete manual to taking advantage of C#2 and the Microsoft .NET2 Framework
  2. Free PDF Version of "The COMPLETE HLSL Reference" is up for grabs!
  3. www.TheHopeMosaic.com to raise funds for hurricane victims
  4. Moving my blog to https://sebby1234.blogspot.com/
  5. Playing "Doctor Hot Potato"...
  6. Volume Shadows VS Shadow Maps.?.
  7. Self Publishing Update.
  8. Press Release - Video Game Developers Take Full Advantage of Graphics Hardware with “The COMPLETE Effect and HLSL Guide”
  9. Press Release - All Microsoft Meltdown 2005 Attendees to Receive a Free Copy of...
  10. My book proof is in!!
  11. Books: "The COMPLETE HLSL Reference"
  12. Book: "The COMPLETE Effect and HLSL Guide"
  13. Free IPods... Myth or scam? (2 month update)
  14. Long time no post... Again!
  15. Long time no post....
  16. Free IPods... Myth or scam? (week 3 update)
  17. Free IPods... Myth or scam? (week 1 update)
  18. I will be speaking at the upcoming GDX (Game Developers eXchange 2005)
  19. Book Announcement: The COMPLETE HLSL Reference
  20. Book Announcement: The Complete Effect and HLSL Guide
  21. Press Release - Paradoxal Press Announces “The COMPLETE Effect and HLSL Guide” and “The COMPLETE HLSL Reference”, a Complete Set of Reference Manuals for Video Game Developers
  22. When it rains, it pours!! (part deux)
  23. Free IPods... Myth or scam?
  24. GDC 2005: Microsoft GDC Slides Now Online...
  25. RenderMonkey 1.6 has been released.
  26. GDC 2005: Conference Slides Online.
  27. SCAD-Atlanta and Thomson Course Technology Present Game Developers eXchange 2005
  28. GCD: Radiance Transfer (Irradiance Volumes for Games)
  29. GDC: Optimizing for DX Graphics
  30. GDC: Industry Rants (Burning Down the House)
  31. Work, GDC, Publishing, ... (Update for 03/07/05)
  32. Finally Back...
  33. Paradoxal Press seeks authors of computer graphics and programmming books.
  34. The Worst of News (part 2)
  35. ShaderX4 - Call for Authors.
  36. ShaderX #4
  37. Vacation, Rest, Boogers and Snot!

2004 50

  1. Vacation Time
  2. Review - Visual Studio .NET Tips and Tricks
  3. Print-On-Demand VS Offset Printing - Cost Analysis
  4. Advice to prospective book author
  5. Lunch with Minh T. Nguyen...
  6. New Amazon.com ranking system.
  7. Computer Graphics? Where?
  8. Self-Publishing. Update (11/23/04)
  9. Self-Publishing. Update (11/17/04)
  10. Halo 2
  11. Converting RenderMonkey files to .FX (part 2)...
  12. My new Gmail account.
  13. Self-Publishing. The start of a new journey...
  14. Flight Simulator... Behind The Scenes...
  15. No Posts? No i'm not dead...
  16. Author Interview: "Shaders for Game Programmers and Artists"
  17. Book: "Shaders for Game Programmers and Artists"
  18. Other Authors Venture Into Self-Publishing...
  19. Channel 9 Visits The Flight Sim Team!
  20. Flight Simulator 2004 Update Is Now Up!!
  21. Amazon Sales Ranking Mysteries.
  22. My Next Book... Self-Published???
  23. Misc Computer Graphics / Video Game / Tech News (09/30/04)
  24. Book Talk: Beginning Game Programming
  25. C# Member Properties Recursion?!?!?
  26. Xtreme Game Developers Xpo
  27. Misc Computer Graphics / Video Game / Tech News (09/22/04)
  28. Press-Release : Learn Real-Time Computer Graphics the Easy Way With “Shaders for Game Programmers and Artists” by Sebastien St-Laurent.
  29. Book Piracy... Ridiculous pricing?
  30. Misc Computer Graphics News (09/16/04)
  31. Shader for Game Programmers and Artists Errata (Wrong D3DRS_CULLMODE Render State in Chapter 5)
  32. Contest Reminder: Mini Website Design
  33. Answer to Question: Converting rendermonkey to fx
  34. Water reflections and clip planes...
  35. Mini Website Design Contest
  36. New Avalon GUI System to be released on XP/Server 2003
  37. Dental Work... Part Deux!
  38. Request for topics...
  39. To publish or to self-publish... There is the question...
  40. Google IPO on its way... My thoughts...
  41. Flight Simulator...
  42. Why is dental work so expensive?
  43. ATI's RenderMonkey Version 1.5 Released!
  44. The choice of ATI or nVidia for my book...
  45. Misc friday morning ramblings...
  46. XP SP2, Books, Amazon.com and other ramblings...
  47. Amazonian Hell... Part 2
  48. Amazonian Hell??
  49. Parallax Mapping... Why is this the first i hear or it???
  50. New face... New blog...