Misc updates and twigs

A number of smaller updates ;

• My daughter Grace (7) today won 3rd place in the Australian Eisteddfod singing competition (8 and under, musical) with a clever rendition of "Castle on a cloud" from Les Miserables. Clever girl. Update: She also won 70m and came 3rd in 100m running in the "8 and under" category for the whole of Belconnen (district of Canberra) athletics carnival two weeks ago (how's that for an "update"), which means she's off to the state / territory games in November. Exciting stuff.



• Some of my Flickr pictures were selected for the Schmap Canberra Guides;
  
  • National Library of Australia
    http://www.schmap.com/canberra/introduction_history/p=136712/i=136712.jpg
  • Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve
    http://www.schmap.com/canberra/sights_zoos/p=124655/i=124655.jpg
  • National Library of Australia
    http://www.schmap.com/canberra/introduction_history/p=136712/i=136712_5.jpg
  
  



• Happy Rhodes just released a new album, her first in almost 10 years!! A MySpace website has been put up with samples. I love this stuff!
• Stuff I'm committed to these days ;
• An article (or essay) about user-centered design in the software life-cycle, including testing (user testing, application testing, functional testing, user-acceptance testing, and variations of these) before, during and after critical decisions and how to manage the implications.
• Release the latest version of xSiteable (huh? That thing still exists? Apparently.) which is more like a clever XSLT templating system than a Topic Maps engine by itself.
• Update my website, including better synchronizing between website and blogs. Yeah, should have done it ages ago.
• Do you know I have actual plans for how to win the 20 million USD Google "get first to the Moon" competition? :)
• I'm currently laying pavers in our backyard these days, and in two months I'll start building my very own house-centric recyclable low-energy air-condition system. Being a software engineer can do that to people.