Its been quite a while, probably due to us being on holiday for 2 weeks in the middle of all of it. Not much to say really, have not yet finished the website for the villa in Cyprus, it is on hold until the owner returns from taking more photos in October.
We held our family annual barbeque yesterday, the BBC weather forecast had predicted rain on saturday for 5 days or so, but we went ahead. I got all the gazebo's (3 in all, 2 more promised if needed) in place and 2 large umbrellas. The weather was overcast, until most of the guests had arrived, when the heavens opened and boy did it rain. So we all huddled under the gazebos / umbrellas for a few hours. The guests were very nice and all said that they had a great time when they left, but its not really the same when you are fighting the elements in August. Just to really rub salt into the wounds, as I write this on Sunday evening, the sun is pouring in through the windows at 19:30.  Ho hum, thats life I suppose.
I have convinced my boss to allow me to attend the 2006 Microsoft Technical Conference in Barcelona in November this year. I have attended the past 2 years and really enjoy it. Its not really much help for the Talk-PC business, more an insight into what is on the horizon in the Microsoft computing space. However, the previous 2 years was all about the new product set called Visual Studio, which I am now using to write this and all the rest of the Talk-PC website, so maybe next year or so, when we are all running Windows Vista (the successor to Microsoft Windows XP), Talk-PC will be utilising some of the technologies on show in the conference.
Microsoft Tech-Ed europe 2006
Microsoft Windows Vista