Now for some of the fun stuff that has come out of the Imagine Cup. First of all check out the crazy happenings that Doug has going on. Lucky I was there to protect him from the croc!

My interview with Spencer Howson is now available online. I love the description of Prognosticator:

The 'Prognosticator' may sound like some vile medical procedure for questionable practices, but it's much friendlier than that.

And I finally linked myself up with Frank Arrigo's Aussie .NET bloggers list and even received a post from the man himself. I wonder if there's any moves to gather some of these bloggers to meet in person at TechEd in Canberra...

Addendum to my last post: We won our European Handball final last weekend as well. If there's any Brisbanites who want to join in a different style court sport then check out Handball at Salisbury Super Sports. We've changed the rules a bit from the European game but it's still great fun and really easy to pick up (and not as violent as Salisbury's indoor AFL/Gaelic Footy crossover)

Wow, this feels like one of Dominic's aggregate entries...

Footy - My church played its 3rd footy (AFL) match a couple of weeks back. I thought the skills were pretty good for a bunch of people deep in rugby territory (Brisbane). I'm still getting over a decent hit to the ribs, but at least it forced me into full forward where I kicked a couple of goals. Maybe Leigh should have asked me to help out against Geelong on the weekend.

Genesis - Ken Ham from Answers in Genesis spoke at church a couple of weeks back. This is the second AiG presentation I've been to. I still see the first one I went to as being a major influence on getting me thinking seriously about becoming a Christian (I am one now!)

Imagine Cup - Almost time to head off to Brazil for the Imagine Cup. I'm happy to see that Alex Barnett dropped me a line on my last post. It looks like my partially implemented Pingback/Trackback support might have got out to him. (I should finish that sometime)

Media - Imagine Cup has the media flocking to see us (ok. Flocking is maybe an exaggeration). Anyway, The Sunday Mail had us winning $35 million on the weekend! I chatted to Spencer Howson on local ABC radio yesterday. We've also spoken to Doug's local paper (Bayside & Northern Star) and we might be chatting to another Northside paper. We're obviously not good enough for any southside papers. Oh yeah, best of all Nick Wienholt is doing a story in Australian Developer about TVP.

Tech Ed - Imagine Cup is also taking us to Canberra in August for Australian TechEd. We'll hopefully understand more there than at TechEd Brazil which we'll be visiting as part of the Imagine Cup travels.

Anyway... I think this post proves I should do this more often.

I meant to put this in the last post. It's been a couple of weeks now but I'll still let you know that Doug and I won the Australian stage of the Imagine Cup, so we're headed for Brazil! I would've mentioned this earlier but I wanted to add more trackback/pingback support to the RikWik blogging engine first - but now I'm full time on Imagine Cup work so I won't be finishing off that for a while.

Some links to other teams:
http://scottonwriting.net/sowblog/posts/1297.aspx
http://geekswithblogs.net/mflasko/archive/2004/04/30/4514.aspx
http://weblogs.asp.net/alexbarn/archive/2004/04/16/114506.aspx

While wasting away time reading http://blogs.msdn.com/ I found Mike Warren's post on Comega (http://blogs.msdn.com/mattwar/archive/2004/06/07/150603.aspx) Since I'm kinda interested in the whole Polyphonic C# stuff with regards to my PhD I checked it out and wondered why I hadn't caught the renaming.

Then a double blow as I discover the third link in Google for Comega was made a month ago by the guy who sits all of 10 metres from me (http://dcooney.com/archive/2004/04/15/569.aspx) Guess that proves I don't actually take in anything I read...