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Blog moved to WordPress and new domain...

I've moved my blog to my own domain and onto a WordPress engine, CS + SPAM was driving me nuts!

Catchup posts: Oh yes, I've been in Japan for a couple of months, first 2 weeks of photos are uploaded on Flickr, I still havent had a chance to upload the thousands after.

Whats more, I've actually written some information about me so you can finally find out my sad sad way of life. See About Thushan Fernando.

SOFTWARE: Visual Studio .NET 2008 and .NET 3.5 Released!

Quick post before our Games Programming exam in a few hours, Scott Guthrie's blog has just announced the launch of Visual Studio  .NET 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5...

Yayyy! All the details are on his blog. Download away!

SOFTWARE: Visual Studio 2008 RTM Next week!

Well what an exciting few weeks/month this has been. We've had:
Just when you thought things couldnt get better and as predicted in an earlier post (well I cheated a bit!) now Microsoft will finally RTM Visual Studio 2008 early next week. MSDN Subscribers can download it from the "Top Subscriber Downloads" list according to the MSDN Subscriptions Blog.

ORCAS: Visual Studio 2008 coming end of Movember!

Thats right, it appears S. Somasegar let werd out that Visual Studio 2008 (aka 'Orcas') will ship sometime this month. I cant wait to get my hands on the final, read more on his blog entry.

While on the topic of Movember, did you know:
  • Depression affects 1 in 6 men...Most don't seek help. Untreated depression is a leading risk factor for suicide.
  • Last year in Australia 18,700 men were diagnosed with prostate cancer and more than 2,900 died of prostate cancer - equivalent to the number of women who die from *** cancer annually.
  • Men are far less healthy than women. The average life expectancy of males is 5 years less than females.
Please get involved and contribute to fighting depression and prostate cancer. Find out more about Movember.