Well, you could if you used the new Wii interface for the Google Reader. It's _very_ experimental, but if you want to give it a shot go to reader.google.com and try it out.Alternatively have a look at the blog entry which has a video of it in action. Read more

If you've got a follicle-challenged head like me then there's really only a few things you can do:Go bald (dis)gracefullyShave everything offGet a toupee or wig (Britney can help you here)Use Spray on Hair (classy!)Surgical methodsNow it appears that doctors have found a way to get the body to regenerate hair long after the original follicles... Read more

Well, so much for "going dark". I couldn't help myself :-)Tonight one of my staff (Sharon) and I went to the inaugural combined Syxpac & Scrum Gathering where the Sydney agile community could get together. Andrew Hallam has already posted about it - talk about quick!The gathering was in an open space format, which I've not... Read more

Things on this blog will be quiet for a little bit - except maybe for the occasional sporadic post or two.There's a lot happening offline right now and it's taking up most of my time - I'll get back into the swing of things in maybe a month or so when it's all wrapped up.In the... Read more

No longer a release candidate, nHibernate 1.2 has now made it to production status, meaning it's fully supported and ready to roll. Read about it here & here.Given what's happening in nHibernate these days I can be pretty sure that the AtomsFramework is now dead and buried. It was fun to do, but nHibernate is really... Read more

On Friday I toddled off to the nearest EB Games store and handed over some hard earned for a copy of Elite Beat Agents for the Nintendo DS.This game has been getting first class reviews from various game sites and I've been curious as to how good it really is so I took a (small) risk... Read more

Wow - this blog just racked up it's 10,000th visit! When I started it 2 years ago I never really thought I would get that many visits (or keep posting for this long either).Thank you to everyone who visits regularly, whether by visiting the site or subscribing to the feed. I know it's a crowded web... Read more

Guy Kawasaki has recently posted about using LinkedIn for vetting candidates and tied it to "The No A$$hole Rule" book. The result is a fairly interesting read, especially as I'm a boss.How would I answer the list of items I wondered? Here's my self assessment, out in public, for the whole word to see. If you... Read more

Mike Cohn recently posted the following on the scrumdevelopment group:----On March 20, I gave spoke at Google at the invitation of the bayXP group on the subject of "Planning and Tracking on Agile Projects." They did a nice job of recording the session and have posted it on YouTube. You can download it at:Part 1 -... Read more

Thanks to 800-CEO-READ I just read Business 2.0 article about Nintendo's recovery and their return to completely dominate sales for the current generation of consoles.It's a very interesting read in terms of strategy, marketing, learning from your mistakes and being willing to take big risks. After all if the Wii failed then Nintendo might well have... Read more

Joseph Little has started to put together a handbook on agile called The Elements of Agile Style. It's still in draft format and it's reasonably comprehensive. It touches on all the main areas of agile at a high level and includes references to more detailed information should you want to delve into a particular area.It's worth... Read more

Yep, I've aged again.  My birthday passed on the weekend and I had a great time.  Quite a few presents from my girls, visits from relatives throughout the day, a cake at work today.  It's all good. Being a game player I was quite happy to pick up 2 new titles for my Wii - SSX... Read more

I posted a few weeks ago about an agile refresher I was going to do with my team.  Well, this morning was the day I did it (in between sprints). The presentation itself was structured and geared towards reminding people of the "why" of agile.  I kept it focused on the reasoning behind agile using things like... Read more

I ran across this on the 37Signals blog - it's a very creative and unusual way to get a message across. While it's a web site it also works as a presentation.It's amazing what you can do with a whiteboard/fridge/stove top, a whiteboard marker, a camera and a willingness to take a risk.The thing for me... Read more

As is the case in any organisation over time people come and people go. If you're in a growth situation then hopefully more people come than go. So what happens when the people coming and going are developers, testers and BA's? What happens when those people are entering an agile environment for the first time? How... Read more

Even though we use agile development at work, we still have to keep track of the time we actually spend on tasks for both cost accounting reasons and also so we can compare actuals vs estimates - and hopefully improve our estimating ability.Web Worker Daily has a short little post on options for tracking time. It's... Read more

Vista's been out and about now for quite a while and I've finally decided to take the plunge and start the process to roll out both Vista and Office 2007 within the company.At this stage I've just been doing some initial testing and dog-fooding it. A few things have been "interesting" and there's some kinks to... Read more

Daily scrum meetings are meant to be a coordination and communication session for the team.  A way to kick off the day and keep things going in the right direction. They're simple enough in concept.  Just ask the three questions - What did you do yesterday? What will you do today? What got in your way? ... Read more

... and almost no one noticed. The midnight launch parties for the PS3 overnight were spectacularly ignored. According to the SMH article the (not so) massive 40 person strong "crowd" that turned up for the launch at the flagship Myer store in Sydney were outnumbered by the press.Dear, oh dear... What have Sony done?I posted about... Read more

Recently I went to a seminar being run by Thoughtworks - a consulting company with a focus on agile software delivery (they're the company who built CruiseControl; the automated build server I use). It was an interesting seminar and covered a few things from a perspective I hadn't really given a lot of previous thought to - that of... Read more