Posted by Seth on August 27th, 2006
I watched a film called Primer (official site) tonight. This is quickly becoming a cult classic and is in the same league as Pi, Memento, 12 Monkeys, Donnie Darko, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Fight Club. Interestingly, the film was shot for US$7,000 spent mostly on film stock and the film’s lead actor, a former engineer, is also the screenwriter, director, cinematographer, producer, editor and composer.
Imagine a few engineer friends who “accidentally” produce a time machine device in their garage. When they start using the device, the friendship deteriorates as the timeline gets tangled. Wikipedia has a good entry on Primer, chock-full of spoilers so watch the film first.
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Posted by Seth on August 24th, 2006
Finished the first day at TechEd in Sydney. Highlights of the day:
- The keynote was very interesting. Not your typical Microsoftie jumping around yelling “Developers! Developers! Developers!” like days past. Instead, we were treated to a rather insightful look at the human side of computing and how its changing the culture for the new “digital natives”. Followed up by a fun conference opener by Frank (hey, mate, just noticed I’m not on your blogroll–do I need to send you an email?).
- Catching up with my mate Paul Andrew at his Windows Workflow Foundation introduction. An awesome presentation as always, and his product looks really cool.
- Ron Jacobs gave another good presentation on “What do architects do anyway?”….Ah, finally I have an answer to that burning question
- Lunch was surprisingly good.
- Network connection at the CommNet was excellent. My favourite employment site loaded in a blink of an eye.
Lowlights:
- The X-Box 360 stations were chocka everytime I dropped by.
- The weather in Sydney was so nice today that it was a shame to stay inside all day.
- Network connection in the hotel sucks arse. No WiFi. Shamefully slow broadband.
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Posted by Seth on August 22nd, 2006
Off to TechEd in Sydney tomorrow. Its going to be great. Will hopefully catch with a friend or two or three. I also found out that Scott Guthrie has used used UrlRewriter.Net in some of his samples. Cool - thanks Scott!
I’ve started work on an IIS7 version of the rewriter, but got sick and haven’t found time to restart on it since then.� I’ll get back to it as soon as I’m done with another project I’ve got on now.
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