Life is grand

Some screenshots from the Office 2007 beta. Overall I like what they have done though I am not happy they override my Windows XP theme choice (Windows Classic.)

Thanks. That is great. Telling me I can click a checkbox when that checkbox is disabled isn’t too smart chaps.

Being based on the Microsoft platform doesn’t limit your acquisition options.

This is subtle, yet an important consideration for some Web 2.0 startups. The recent purchase of Writely (which was a Microsoft ASP based service), showcases that it isn’t a prohibitive barrier in the Google acquisition process.

Top 13 reasons to CONSIDER the Microsoft platform for Web 2.0 development.

1. Garbage - Medication
2. Garbage - Temptation Waits
3. Kooks - Seaside
4. The White Stripes - Cannon
5. Jose Padilla - Come Back
6. Lamb - Trans Fatty Acid [Kruder & Dorfmeister Remix]
7. Kooks - Jackie Big Tits
8. Mari Boine - Gula Gula [Chilluminati Mix]
9. Arctic Monkeys - When the Sun Goes Down
10. We Are Scientists - Can’t Lose

Mary has some good official photos of the Web2Ireland event. I spotted her working the crowd with a Kodak DCS Pro 14n on a Manfrotto tripod.

And here I am wearing my Code Project t-shirt. I need to get a FeedHenry one for these events.

What a weekend. I am wrecked but happy. Munster winning the Heineken European Rugby Cup on Saturday was brilliant. Jammed into the Three Shippes pub in Waterford along with hundreds of red garbed Munster fans going crazy. This was after being out till 2am the night before as we gave an Irish welcome to Jessica from Canada who will be sailing with us in Genoa. The rough weekend weather made the Saturday sailing great. I took a breather on Saturday night before working on the boat all Sunday with its four-seasons. The water was freezing as we hauled her out and I am thankful for a perfectly placed buoy that saved me from a dunking in the harbour. Then it was off to Fi’s place where we laughed ourselves to death with probably the best Top Gear episode ever shown. Watching Clarkson and co. build and drive amphibious cars was classic. I haven’t laughed that hard in years. All capped off by more drinks at Uluru and then Jason’s place till 1am as we said fairwell to Jessica.

The mad bit is that this coming weekend will be even larger as we head down for the Baltimore Seafood Festival. My liver is booking a ticket to Anywhere Else But There as we speak.

And if you happen to see a dreadlocked Canadian in Dublin airport immigration who responds to the name of Jesus then please give us a call. Poor bugger, welcome to Ireland.

The slides from the Web2Ireland event have been made available.

Here are the four that I found interesting:

• Jeff Clavier
• Daniel Waterhouse
• Judy Gibbons
• Marc Canter

Anybody know of a JavaScript function queue? The more I get into developing Ajax apps the more I need to reliably queue function calls. e.g. script.aculo.us needs to highlight an element then do a DropOut on it and then I want some JavaScript to remove the element from the DOM. You can’t do the remove before the highlight or there will be nothing to highlight. A queue would be ideal.

I am wired up thanks to an Ajax presentation I gave to the lads at The TSSG earlier. I am not used to giving them and still get nervous up in front of 30 Irish engineers. It seemed to go OK. You can download the PowerPoint presentation here (1.8Mb PPT).

Check out Mojizu for some brilliantly done characters. A good few of them would go deadly on a t-shirt and they make good IM avatars. Thanks to Derek for the link.