Darren Neimke's Live Portal

Readify's new State Manager for WA, Andy Lamb, has things well and truly up and running over in the west.  Per Andy's post from today, we will running an RDN in Perth later this month:

On the 29th May in Perth, come and see our free seminar Silverlight with Alister Jones and Reactive Programming with LINQ by Paul Stovell.

If you are in Perth, this is a great opportunity to drop in and learn about what's going on and to be a part of our successful RDN series of talks.

Cajun Dance Party - The Race

Flight Of The Conchords - Robots (Radio Version) Music Video

Very mild superpowers

The Ting Tings - That's Not My Name

"A Weekend Read" is my weekly link list of interesting blog articles that I've seen throughout the week.  To learn more about the "A Weekend Read" series, take a read of this post.  OK, onto this week:

Teaching/Learning/Talent

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Knowledge Management

Objects That Blog: Expanding The Architecture Of Participation -

Healthy Wealthy and Wise

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Leadership

Who Gets The Ax in a Recession? - A good formula for looking at yourself and your staff in tough times.

Why Quantitative Measures Often Make Performance Worse, not Better - interesting discussion about performance targets.

Technology/Development

Functional Programming in C# - Higher-Order Functions - a nice clear post by co-worker Andrew Matthews.

Microsoft Announces Changes for Accessing Hotmail with Outlook Express - goodbye Outlook Express, hello Windows Live Mail.

Customise Your Outlook Today Pane with Cut-and-Paste HTML - this is pure gold. 

Miscellaneous

Astronomy Picture of the Day: A Protected Night Sky - Amazing picture.  I'm currently using this as my desktop background.

Mile-High Skyscrapers and Floating Cities That Never Were - gallery of imaginary cities.

Concrete Blonde - Tomorrow Wendy

Cajun Dance Party - Amylase

Lights & Music - Cut Copy

Cut Copy's new song 'Feel the Love' is also worth listening to.