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I have been playing to get SportsLine video up and running, and so far I have got a channel on Mogulus that works with the video from YouTube.

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I'm not one for New Years resolutions but seeing as this blog is in serious need of content I decided that I'd try something different. Its been cool this year to look back at the past years posts and see how things have changed and whats still the same. So to try and get some content here I decided I'd try and blog each day of Janurary and see if it works. So heres the commitment, as long as I'm home on in contact with the internet I'll make sure to get a post up.

So given i've already failed, as this is the first post on the 2nd I'll make it a big one, wrap up the end of 2006 and include today.

New Years was at Matt and Kylies with all the normal crew, plus the 2 new additions to our crew, Alanah and Kaitlyn. Great night, we left about 2 for the drive home so got to bed after 3:00....

Most of New Years day was in bed recovering from..... partying... yep thats what it called..

So today was back to work, had the last week or so off (give or take a day) all the crew were there. I actually got some work done, we're working on V2 of the Editorial system, and as ususal I'm holding up the project. It doesn't work to be some sort of manager dude and try and cut code too. I'm to busy in meetings, writing plans or something else, but I think thats slowing down and get more time to do real developer dude stuff.

Last night got updated version of utils, waf and waf-plugins out, might write the release notes for that soon, but also thinking about an ant task that automatically creates the post and uploads it, I already have the rest of the release process automated, one last step.

Umm what else.. Not much at work, recorded the review for this week, and watched the raw video of the other weeks right odds that we recorded as a sort of pilot..

Headed home on time for once, and as my previous post shows I've got back on the bike again. The plan for tonight was to meet up with Sharkey and get some more K's under the belt.. Yep thats right, a Tuesday night. Had a good ride around 2hrs and got another 30ish kms done. We plan to try and get out each Tuesday night, with bigger plans every weekend or so.

Anywho, think thats about it.. Might try and get 30 mins in on WOW before bed.

Night.

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This morning I checked out of my room at The Grace in the CBD of Sydney, and headed to North Sydney to work for the day.  During today I needed to find another place to stay for the next 3 nights until I get to fly home on Friday night.

So I asked around the office, and no-one had any real good ideas, so the suggestion was again back to wotif.com for help in finding somewhere. The plan was to stay somewhere in North Sydney to be closer to work but it seemed that there were not many places that had rooms for the time I'll be here.  The only one that seemed to fit the bill was the Glenferrie Lodge.

So here I am, sitting in a room 3x4, a bed, tv and fridge…. Thats it.

Can you guess which room is which?

That said, I have nothing against the room, its just a bit of a culture shock coming from a 11th floor “Heritage” room in the CBD, to a 1st floor box in the backstreets under the bridge.. 

But the 1 super saving grace is that we have a WIRELESS BROADBAND network here, where at the Grace it was a pay-for service and I had to plug a network cable in..  How 2003 is that?

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As I’m in Sydney at the moment, working on some BestBets development I thought that I should update on what i’m doing.  I’m working on doing some SOAP/Web service integration between an existing Java Application and a new .NET module.

Being a Java man, delving into the Microsoft world is a bit foreign to me, but still and interesting challenge.  So the research begins..  The plan is to not learn the entire .NET system, but just enough to get connectivity between the two systems.

So far a really cool resource in learning Web services in .NET is Creating Web Services with .Net and Visual Studio which was obviously provided by google.

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I’m off to Sydney for some BestBets work on Thursday, and as Rach is not working at the moment she will be joining me for a few days.

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Now that i’m home, I have taken some photos of the new toy..  The cool thing that I have found is that it also has an SD card reader built into it, so no more having to plug in the USB card reader to copy the image from the camera…

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After taking 3 weeks off to get married and have a honeymoon, it was back to work.  Not too bad seeing as I returned to a brand new laptop..

Been waiting for this for months now, and its finally here.  When I get home I’ll take some photos and post them up here, but in the meantime just be happy knowing that its a Dell Inspiron 6000, P4M 1.86Ghz, 15.4” (1680x1050) screen, 100Gb disk, 1024Mb Ram 802.11g and Bluetooth enabled with all the trimmings.

Yay..

And the best part, is that so far it’s heaps faster..  Will test it out over the next few days and report back on how it goes.

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