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# Monday, July 17, 2006

Voting is now open for the New Zealand .Net Blog of the Year.  You can cast your vote from the Links page of the User Group site.

You can vote for me if you like, but as I’ll be counting the votes then I guess I’m ineligible :{

If you want your blog to be included in the voting then you need to be in the OPM list  - just following the instructions on the page linked above.  You can also post a shortcut to vote for you blog thus:

                http://www.dot.net.nz/blogvote?blogname=MY Blog Name Here

Votes will of course be filtered for obvious fraud!

Monday, July 17, 2006 9:14:37 PM (New Zealand Standard Time, UTC+12:00)  #    Comments [0]   General  | 
# Friday, July 07, 2006

Like Rod I am completely baffled by the game of Football.  I'm sure it takes considerable skill to perform some of the elegant goals you occasionnaly see in the Readers Digest versions we get on the sports news at night, but for the life I me I cannot explain why anyone can sit through the remaining 89 minutes of utter boredom.

To make it worse, I've been surrounded by devotees of the "Beautiful Game" for the last month - either at work or socially - and even the most ardent of these fans will admit that it can be a tad tedious at times.

On the odd occassion that I have been tortured with more than a glance at the action it has inevitably been 0-0 in the 83rd minute, or some mumma's boy has tripped on a blade of sharp grass and ruptured his spleen.

Xenu gave us hands for a very good reason. FFS - just pick the damn ball up and run with it!  

 

Friday, July 07, 2006 10:52:35 PM (New Zealand Standard Time, UTC+12:00)  #    Comments [1]   General  | 

I’ve been at Intergen for 1 whole week now and I feel like Neo after taking the blue pill – or was it the red one, I forget.  While I enjoyed working at Airways and the University of Canterbury anyone would be hard pressed to describe them as high pressure work environments! 

Intergen has a large team by New Zealand standards and we are producing some great solutions for large and small organizations.  It’s great to be working with such a large team and the environment is fun.

I’m currently working on a small community portal site (for about 30,000 users) using EPiServer. This is an ASP.Net CMS from a Swedish company.  Yes, I’d never heard of it before Intergen  but I’m beginning to like it a lot.  It’s very quick to create sites with and it performs very well.  There’s a lot to learn though so progress has been slow this week, but I’m getting there.

Intergen are currently looking for more talented people to join the team in Auckland, Wellington or Christchurch.  If you are thinking about a change then I  highly recommend that you checkout the web site and send your CV along.  If we like you and you sign with Intergen before the end of August you get to take home a free 19”  LCD monitor.  Sweet little bonus (that I unfortunately just missed out on :< ).

Friday, July 07, 2006 10:24:40 PM (New Zealand Standard Time, UTC+12:00)  #    Comments [1]   General  | 
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