This is an interesting webcast on Channel9 where Eric Schmidt provides a technical tour of the NBCOlympics.com site built with Silverlight. If you are like me and become frustrated with the limited options of events the stations choose to broadcast, then we are in luck. The video that the NBCOlympics.com site is providing is excellent and covers nearly all the sports. I have heard estimates of roughly 2,200 hours of video, live commentary, live events, and with the ability to choose what we prefer to view. For those events we miss, we can search and view them at our leisure.

I have been able to watch some events I have always wanted to see but the television stations do not televise. Popularity and advertising dollars demand that stations air the usual suspects, swimming, track and field, gymnastics, ect. I have been able to explore fencing, sailing, handball, archery, and weightlifting to name a few.

If interested, check it out. If you have not seen the U.S. Men's 4x100 freestyle relay, check it out. What a race!

After three years, I decided to finally update my blog engine to the latest version of DasBlog. What I have discovered over three years is that finding time to blog can be difficult, and finding time to maintain the blog site takes a backseat to blogging. Now that I have updated to the latest DasBlog, I inherit a number of nice security features to battle spam, as well as some cool usability features. Thanks to the DasBlog team for their efforts in creating this project, one of the few blog engines that does not require a database.

I have not spent much time skinning this site and I do not plan on it right now. I use the built in RSS capabilities of Microsoft Office Outlook for aggregating my feeds, so I rarely view the actual websites that I read. I am guessing that most readers use a similar approach, so with this in mind, my current site theme works for now.

What RSS readers are you using?

When John Denver spoke about spring time, he spoke about he passing of winter. The green of the new leaves and of life going on. The promise of morning and the long days of summer. I am John Denver fan and obviously not afraid to admit it. What John failed to mention in any of his songs in regards to spring time is Code Camp, but John did not live long enough to experience this.

In recent years, the Code Camp movement is starting to become synonymous with spring time. The Boston .NET User Group has a code camp schedule that shows the various code camp events across the US, with most, if not all of them occurring during late winter and early spring. As I am looking through several camp's sessions, each seems to offer similar presentations on agile, MVC, Web Client Software Factory, and best practices, just to name a few. I think it is exciting to see the community support for these events in every city. I will be checking back with these sites to see how their support faired.

For me, it used to be the anticipation of a new baseball season that marked my spring, now its code camp. In Boise, spring and code camp both tends to come early. Code camp rejuvenates those desires to investigate new technologies that tend to become dormant during the winter.

Would John Denver have mentioned Code Camp in any of his songs? It is highly unlikely. However, he was an activist, caring for the environment and those who care for it. Code Camp involves a similar activism in the community. It is good to see it emerging.