Hey folks! So this week, let's go with the "Jessica's son" edition - the starting artist will be Fall Out Boy , since I had to listen to Fall Out Boy songs over and over and over again Friday night when the kid and his friends were playing Rock Band...and the ending artist Led Zeppelin , as my friends and I try to give him a good rock education. Last week's challenge was won by " sableholic ," who was the first person to get from Dieselboy to Sarah McLachlan in 10...

About a year ago, I put out in the Zune forums a question. What if we tried to develop a feature "out in the open?" Typically we do our development behind closed doors, and we do this for a number of reasons: competitive advantage, because things ALWAYS change mid-cycle and if we promised one thing in November, what we delivered in April would likely be totally different, and to get the most out of the marketing splash when the time does come. However, to try to be more "social"...

Here's a thing about software development. This dude I used to work with would sometimes, in the winter, head up to the mountains for some pre-work skiing before rolling in to the office at noon or 1, and in the summer, take off early for some afternoon wakeboarding. When asked about it, he pointed to the cyclical nature of our jobs: during certain parts of the software development lifecycle, he works from dawn until the wee hours of the morning...and during other parts, not so much. He called...

Hey! So we were messing around with Mixview recently, trying to play “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon” with various artists. Turns out it’s actually kind of fun…especially when you take two artists who are totally different, and try to find a path from one to the other. Like, check this out: Metallica to Barbra Streisand: Metallica to Black Sabbath Black Sabbath to April Wine April Wine to Boston Boston to Bad English Bad English to Journey Journey to Garth Brooks Garth Brooks...