http://funkdancer.com writings of a Norwegian living Down Under Sun, 06 Apr 2008 14:10:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For the Blu-ray Disc (BD) (aka Bluray) addicts out there, Cyberlink's PowerDVD Ultra is out in version 8. It is sporting a brand new user interface, and allows playback of BD+ titles. I bought the upgrade yesterday - and I will answer the question of why here. A must have for ... http://funkdancer.com/2008/04/05/dealing-with-drm-blurays-on-powerdvd-ultra-8/ For the bloggers out there, Wordpress is out in version 2.5 as of a week ago. I just upgraded my own blog at Bluehost; pretty painless thing, however rather than deleting, I simply renamed wp-includes and wp-admin to include an _ / underscore, then copied the files across and touched ... http://funkdancer.com/2008/04/05/wordpress-25-is-out/ 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. http://funkdancer.com/2008/03/26/net-mvc-framework/ 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 ... http://funkdancer.com/2008/03/09/blog-update-new-layout/ 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 ... http://funkdancer.com/2008/03/07/hip-hop-dancing-for-programmers/ 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 ... http://funkdancer.com/2008/03/07/heroes-happen-microsofts-2008-lineup/ Well, about 6 months ago we signed up both of our cars plus household wastage on http://www.carbonneutral.com.au/ . Electricity is already on green. Would like to plug their site as it's a great initiative! If we weren't renting I'd love to get a solar panel set up. However I settled ... http://funkdancer.com/2007/12/04/carbon-neutral/ Here's to hoping that Howard's ejection might finally take Australia out of the ethical dark ages we have suffered for the past 10 years. On Howard's CV we have ... Children overboard, The Tampa, Kyoto, Iraq, decimating the Aboriginal communities, lying about GST... It'll be an interesting time to see if Rudd ... http://funkdancer.com/2007/11/29/congratulations-rudd/ So we got an introductory package from Origin Energy after signing up to a 12 month contract with Green energy. It contained several Compact fluorescent lamps, plus a water saving showerhead (which we already had). Now for the bulbs, I'd never thought about them before. But then decided, ok let's ... http://funkdancer.com/2007/07/28/the-bulbs-are-gone/ I went to the Melbourne Car Show 2007 today and got a few shots. Others have covered the details much better than I could, but I find the Type R Civic - which will arrive here in a few months - having an incredible appeal. Plus, it's got to ... http://funkdancer.com/2007/03/07/a-much-nicer-civic/