For all these times, that we walked away

Bit of a catch-up here, as it's been far too long since I blogged:

England are out, and the World Cup is over. The first event left me feeling raw anger towards the Portuguese (who over the years have given me plenty to be pissed about). The second was a rather bittersweet event. On the one hand, I'd far rather see neither France nor Italy win it, but out of the two I would have to have reluctantly picked the aging French surrender monkeys, rather than the greasy match-fixing Italians, to have won it. But the Zidane incident made the entire thing worthwhile, it was pure enjoyment seeing him getting his marching orders, with the classic shot of him leaving the field yards away from the World Cup trophy, combined with the fact than an Italian was for once legitimately polaxed.
I got me SkyHD installed, and it is sw-eeeet. I can now watch HD sporting events, movies, and other assorted goodies (including alsorts of random documentaries, which I'd never usually watch except for the fact that it's in HD). The box itself is sleek and chic, and bar a couple of random lock-ups last couple of days, has behaved excellently for a first generation piece of equipment. Oh, and the Sky+ PVR system is fantastic, I forgot how much I missed being able to setup entire series to be recorded with a couple of remote clicks.
I'm wrapping up the add-in architecture for RIDE-ME. I hope to have it in my branch by the end of this weekend, and then merge it over after then to trunk. We can then test the hell out of it, while the other guys start to write whatever add-ins they can dream up. Eventually, in the 1.0 release, it'll see the light of day, and we hope to build a nice add-in community around it. Oh, and I'm now hosting all of the resources for the RIDE-ME project.
Did I mention HD? I'm currently watching Die Hard With A Vengeance apparently in HD (didn't even realise HD cameras were around back in '95), and Bruce Willis never looked so good.
I've been having a lot of fun with the object/relation mapping framework I'm working on at the minute, integrating it tightly with the model-view-controller framework I knocked together. It's starting to come together, and I've just implemented associations in queries (read: joins). I've got a reason for putting all of this together, and that reason is almost ready for the big-time, so watch this space...
I've ordered a SleepTracker watch, but there's no stock at the minute so I gotta wait.
The new Rise Against album is fantastic, along with the latest albums from Billy Talent and Lostprophets, expect reviews soon
RubyCLR is superb, I think John Lam might be a genius

I think that's mostly it believe it or not, so peace out for now.

thx – May 01 08 @ 04:13PM

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For all these times, that we walked away

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