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I see the agenda for DDD5 is up, thanks to everyone who voted for my session on TFS. I better write it now!

I can confirm that putting a Corsair Flash Voyager USB Stick in 40C Mixed Cotton wash is not the best way to clean it of old data. A traditional format remains the best solution for dirty data. However, it does show these rubberized USB sticks are tough, two hours in a washing mean seems to have done no harm. Also the new orange colored moels are fast enough for Vista TurboFlash usage....

Went to a great session last night at the Yorkshire Extreme Programming Club, a intro to Test Driven Development using just Excel. The presentation was given by Clarke Ching, you can find out more about him and this presentation on his blog I just had not occurred to me that Excel is a great way to show TDD principles to people who are not developers, such as project managers and business analysts....

On Wednesday 19th of September I will be speaking at an evening event organised by Guy Smith-Ferrier of the .NET Developers Network in Bristol. The session will be on Microsoft Team Foundation Server. For full details have a look at http://www.dotnetdevnet.com/Meetings/tabid/54/EntryID/7/Default.aspx

Just got my reminder for NxtGen’s FEST07 conference which is at Microsoft TVP on the 23rd of May. Unfortunately, due to a busy diary, I cannot make it to the event, but the speaker line up does look good. If you have never seen Rafal Lukawiecki speak, who has topped the polls at TechEd for the last 7 years, this is your chance. To quote Dave McMahon, one of the NxtGen organizers:...