Busy week - with added weekend work...

Spent the week bouncing around an Intel run partner thing that I'd been got into.  LOTS of good networking and a genuinely strong lead I should be working on rather than updating this.  OTOH the ideas are rumbling around my head and will flop out into OneNote relatively soon I think.

Got a new video of what we do done.  And soon I hope to have a new PPT, just as soon as head rattling is complete.

Picked up a couple of new projects this week, and in other news, we've got an all expenses paid trip to London at the end of October to take part in a Nokia Hacker event - which we're hoping to plan with military precision, while also fitting in delivery of a bunch of apps for another customer.

Less comforting, we fixed a bunch of bugs at client demand and they've broken something.  We think we've found a weird platform bug, but we need to optimize memory use before we can be sure, as it might just be the device running out of memory.

Brown Ale Rugby

If there's an opposite of Champagne Rugby, I think we can safely say that it was what England ground out against Scotland last night.  England were bloody lucky to win.  Yes, the conditions were atrocious, but having Wilkinson keep kicking, even when he was obviously struggling was a dumb tactic.  The Captain makes the call not the #10 - they were pummeling the Scots in the Maul and should have been doing that.  When they did they scored a try.  Go figure.

Sad as it is for me to say, the time has come for Flood to come in and take over at that point for the Quarter Final and only bring Wilkinson back on in the last quarter for a random drop kick.

The rest of the game was just ugly, messy and doesn't fill me in hope for what I think is going to be England v. France next weekend.

The only plus side, if is there's another top flight side in the contest playing as shite as England, then it's France.  They're bloody lucky to get through, the match against Tonga was just a stonking game of rugby.

So... where does that leave things.

So, we have England v. France as one of the Quarters.  My predictions for the others:

RSA v. Australia (unless Ireland screw up and they're looking unlikely to against Italy) - good prospects for RSA I think based on Australia's form

NZ v. Argentina - NZ win hands down

Ireland v. Wales (probably) - with the best will in the world Ireland should cream Wales here...

So, my Semi Predictions:

England v. Ireland
RSA v. NZ

And I'll leave it there.  Those will be cracking semi finals.