I would like to announce that Google has completed their purchase of The ZBuffer for $1.2 billion in cash and stock.... I would *love* to announce that but sadly that's not happening

However something almost as big is now less than 1 week away. After almost 9 years at Microsoft I have handed in my notice in order do to the Managed DirectX thing (and a few other projects) full time. When I say 'full time' - I don't mean I have a job, I mean I am going to sit here at home and milk the savings account for a while to hopefully get my gaming and/or graphics skills to a point that they are very marketable.

It means The ZBuffer can be updated more often and I can start working on the pile of post it notes I've been collecting for 12 months with 'good ideas' on them.

I could ramble on for hours about why I chose to do this, how I'm going to pull it off and what my future plans are but that sounds a lot like a whole new blog to me - so I present to you Indie Game Guy. For now its just my online journal of a journey I am learning lots of people would love to take. It will be fairly slow updating until after my last day at work and a little R&R but point your aggregator to it. I'm finally running on some decent blog software so you can even leave comments now!

Finally, much as you all think Microsoft folks are all millionaires its sadly not true (otherwise I would have quit years ago!) so send Ramen noodles to help get me through the year.