Monday

Yesterday I found out that this will be yet another tablet free weekend. It should be here on Monday apparently.

Silverlight

I've just learnt that WPF/E has been branded finally. It's now called Silverlight. Some of the stuff you can do with it looks neat but I haven't had a chance to look into it yet. Now that the marketing division has been unleashed on it I'll be sure to check it out again though. The video on the homepage is very corny.

Tablet gaming

The payment of the tablet goes through today. Hopefully this means that it will ship from www.penta.com.au today (been very helpful) and be in my hands by tomorrow or Thursday. I'm bursting with anticipation.
I've been searching around for ink enabled games on the prominent tablet blogging sites and most of them have only come up with a few lame flash games. I know there's probably not much call for tablet/ink enabled gaming at the moment but I have a feeling that people are going to start using the stylus much more frequently as screens become less of a 'look but don't touch' item and more of a 'let me get my grubby mits on it'. With this use and the enabling of better hardware, surely a market for gaming will develop. I remember a game called Black and White that was out years ago that had an interesting input method. I never played it myself but I did see it being played and it looked like it would fit in with tablet pcs well. Here's a link to Black & White 2 which I will be checking out.

Edit: This, from the site, is worrying. I guess it won't work
* Black&White 2 requires a 64MB video card with 1.1 Pixel Shader support. Supported video cards: NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti series, GeForce FX series, GeForce 6200 or greater; ATI Radeon 8500 or greater, ATI Radeon X300 or greater. DirectX 9.0c is included on this disc and may require the latest drivers for your video and sound card.

I've also found the FallingSand game which might be amusing for a while.
Please add comments if you know of any other games that would be suitable for the tablet.

REMIX Australia

After attending CodeCampOz a couple of weeks ago I found my passion for developing renewed greatly. To see all these new and exciting tools being used by some of the best people in the industry was very inspiring.

Andrew Coates recently blogged about REMIX Australia, a Microsoft conference that is coming to Melbourne soon. After reviewing the content that is being presented at MIX07 in Las Vegas this year I expect that this will be a very useful conference to attend even if it doesn't contain the full schedule. I'll certainly be keeping my eye out for further details as they appear.