Karls Blog

From a conference in Japan, a Dell laptop explodes:

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=32550

Scary!

Saw on Franks blog that today is the Winter Solstice - the days just get longer from now on :) Could do with some snow first tho, going to Hotham for a week in Aug and dont like rock hopping too much!

Althought we lost a galant fight against the world number 1 Brazil (http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/06/en/w/match/template.html?id=27) I saw a really kewl article about the technology the Socceroos use to analyse opponents - worth a read for the soccer mad geeks out there ;)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/5087016.stm

Who says you need a fancy interface ;)

http://ascii-wm.net/

Also, appologies for the lack of content, I know I'm in violation of 'Blog Etiquette 101' but I'm hoping my experiences over the last few weeks will make for a stream (and not via telnet ;) of new articles that may actually be interesting to others in the IT profession. More soon.

Alienware do some kewl stuff, but this takes the cake :)

http://www.alienware.com/Special_Edition/Superman/main.aspx

GIMME GIMME GIMME :)

On a quick side note, been flat out lately working on some kewl internal projects. Going to put a few posts together with interesting learnings I hope can help others... more soon!