I am currently reading this interesting article over at MSDN on the MVC framework that is being developed by the asp.net people. To someone who has been using the ColdFusion based MachII for several years, this is pretty interesting stuff as I’m now making the transition across.
In an unexpected stint of house keeping, I decided to updated to a newer version of Wordpress - just using Bluehost’s auto update function. Now, whilst doing this I realised that my old template was getting old; the new version of the otherwise stunning Vistered Little theme was performing even slower than the last, so I set out on search for a new template.
I finally found Yichi’s Resurrection - which is fast performing and very beautiful. A couple of things were broken due to it not being a WP2.3 template, however when I got rid of the Ultimate Tag Warrior plugin and replaced it with Reciprocity’s Configurable Tag Cloud - things were much better.
I also set up a twitter account, which looks like an interesting thingie - I will see how I go with it, on top of Facebook, Google Talk and other places to set my current status. 
After a multi year long break from dancing I’m happy to have found Melbourne Music Academy in Melbourne city. I discovered that they offer a fantastic range of classes, on a whim I went there the same day 3 weeks ago, and immediately bought a multi pass card. I’m aiming for two hip hop and one popping session per week - all coming under the street dance umbrella.
Perhaps ironically, at least from a certain point of view, the Star Wars theme song was playing as I entered the premises of Microsoft’s Heroes Happen 2008 event.
I wondered, had the empire turned into rebels (in their own view)? Who is the new empire to rebel against? Or were they just blissfully aware of this angle? Continue reading »