Do you foos?

I was reminded about a great video on foosball. Here's the link.
There is one great line in this little commercial that says "The verocity of his beatdowns would be the stuff of legends." This is so great.

Had a great foosball match at work yesterday. Here are some photos.

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Get GmailThis

If you're an avid Gmail user like I am, you need to get your hands on this little ditty.

There have been numerous times where was reading a web page and thought I wanted to email someone about it. I had to stop reading, load up Gmail, find the address, copy the link and they send it off. It was just a hassle. Now you can send off email easily.

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Does RSS need a pundit?

My good friend Kip started a blog recently. His goal and or mission is to learn about and share information on how business could benefit from RSS and ATOM type content systems. I like the title RSSPundit. I'm not sure that RSS needs a pundit
but if it does Kip's your man. I think more companies should take a look at using RSS to distribute all kinds of data. With the advent of podcasting it's becoming easier and easier to distribute more than just text to anyone who wants to listen, read or interact.

Kip and I had a short discussion on RSS yesterday and how we thought our company could integrate the technology into our marketing and product offerings. He had recently visited the Blog Business Summit and I'm sure came away with some really great ideas.

According to Wikipedia a pundit is someone who is an expert on a subject. I'm sure Kip will work diligently to become an expert on RSS in the corporate world. Please take some time to read Kip's blog. Oh and Kip, seeing how your blog is focused on RSS feeds, I thought I would help you get a feed on your site so others can read your awesome blog.

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Real time flight info

This is so cool. My wife was flying back from New York and I wanted to know if JetBlue had updates on their web site about flights. Sure enough, there is a place to enter the flight number and up pops a ton of information, like current air speed, altitude, departure time, arrival time, and the best part, a real time graphic that shows you the flight pattern and the current location.

This technology would be great for things like buses, trains, and even your own vehicles (which I know already exist.)

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For my reading and viewing pleasure

I picked up a couple of new items today. The first is the Star Trek: Voyager Season 2, Disks 3 and 4 (of 7) on DVD of course. I've been waiting a few weeks for them to come into the library.

The second is a book called Extreme Programming Adventures in C#. I first saw
this book on the XProgramming.com
web site. Since I'm learning more and more about xtreme programming and agile
development in general I thought this would be a good book to read.

The few hours a day I spend riding the bus has allowed me to make some pretty good head way in studying my next MCSD.Net test, 70-300, Analyzing Requirements and Defining Microsoft .Net Solution Architectures. It's a pretty broad subject and covers a lot of skills I know. Now it's making sure I understand them the way Microsoft intended.

Interestingly enough I started working on a couple of use cases I forgot I had committed to creating for two features in the product I have been working on for the past year. I learned a few things about use cases that I didn't really understand before. According to the study guide I'm reading (Microsoft Press), an Actor can also be "an entity, such as another system or database, that resides outside the system." In my applications case, there are a couple of external "actors" I didn't think about until I read the chapter on Use Cases.

Changed my site a little bit again. Since the Blog is the focal point I decided to make it the actual landing page. We'll see how that goes for a while.

I know links are king when it comes to blog posts but right now I'm too tired to try and find the Amazon links for the Voyager DVD.

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