Karls Blog

After the basketball last Friday night (where Australia beat New Zealand in the Gold Medal game) we were on our walk home when my mum and sister latched on to this old fella for a quick happy snap:

My mum Marianne Kopp, the PM John Howard and my sister Anneliese Kopp.

As WDG continues to grow, I love getting feedback from the guys and girls in the dev team about how we can improve things around here. A few of us finished up a VSTS Kick-start 2 day course last week that helped us think through how we may better use all the new VSTS / TFS bits (thanks Anthony ;). That said, this link was floating around in a conversation this arvo, and I loved the idea.

http://sjbdeveloper.blogspot.com/2006/03/teddy-bear-code-reviews.html

I know if have done the exact same thing many times (walking thru code pretending to explain it to a child) and 9 times out of 10 the problem just pops up and can be fixed. Now we just need a Channel 9 Guy Code Review Bear ;)

Went to the swimming last nite with AJ, and got some fantastic seats (and LOTS of pics :). Here are some of the better ones:

Michael Klim starting his race...

Klim getting his medal

The Aussie girls going 1-2-3 in the 50 Free

Great view of 3 Aussie flags after the 1-2-3 in the Womens 50m

Girls doing a lap of the stadium

Some dude sitting about 8 rows in front of us

Tonnes of more pics, but most of the night went along the same vein, especially for our girls. WELL DONE AUSSIES :)

The Irrepressible Frank Arrigo shot me a quick email pointing me to this great opportunity to play the new XBox 360 in Melbourne as part of the Commonwealth Games feastivities. We are ordering one for WDG HQ in Melbourne, so Franky, if one goes missing, you know where to look first :)

I'm still staying away from the large(ish) PDA type phones to stick with the 'small is better' philosophy of mobile phones. My V3 was starting to die (a few months with a missing back had nothing to do with it, I'm sure! :) so I spent $435 AUD on a new Motorola SLVR L7. And I have to say wow. First thing that is kewl is the new microSD card. These TINY cards come in sizes up to a 1GB today, we'll see what happens tomorrow :) So as I ride to work, I can pop on a few of my fav tracks and not have to worry about bringing my iPod mini along as well as my phone. It has a STANDARD (yes, standard as in dont need a special cable!) mini USB port, so it will plug into just about anything, and pops up as a USB drive (to store docs / pics / anything you need). It can even run iTunes (although I hear mTunes is better - no 100 song limit). Found some nice little mods, but for a $435 purchase, I'm VERY happy :)

A lot of ppl have been speculating what Origami may actually be, and I was reading on /. just now that MS has unvieled this PDA / PC hybrid (otherwise known as a Ultra Mobile):

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/umpc/default.mspx

Looks like fun - Dave / Frank, got any you can let us play with :)