I can’t keep this clip from you - it’s golden. The clip shows one of my favorite bands, the Fodens Richardsons band, in their best party-mode. The “main” soloist is an excellent euphonium player named Glyn Williams, but here he tries out some other instruments also.

As I wrote earlier I have done another “photo session” for Avega. Who knew that such assignments were to take place at a software consultant firm ;).

I then promised to show the result and here it is.

I am really pleased with the result. It almost looks like it was drawn or something. Really cool colors. It is a great photographer. The model leaves more to wish for but you’ll have to work with what you’ve got…

This spring there has been strikes for some groups of workers who actually might need it; nurses for example. And right now, in the beginning of the vacation times, the bus drivers of Stockholm has gone on strike. This in turn leads to a lot more people in the subway and commuter trains.

But we are still not even near an ordinary day in the Tokyo metro…

Found this page http://www.themusicpage.com/ that streams a lot of different contests and performances from brass brand all over the world - seems to be a bit a heavy on the down-under side but a lot of great stuff can be found there.

For example recordings from the English Nationals that took place this weekend, with Grimethorpe as the winning band.

I’ve been checking out a very interesting subject for my current project; WCF contract (and services) versioning.

The support for this is so much better in Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) than for mere web services, that going to WCF could be worth the effort based on that parameter alone.

Here are some good tutorials, best practices and intros to the subject:

• Service versioning from Microsoft
• Best Practices: Data Contract versioning, also Microsoft
• Short but good article on the subject by Das Blonde, aka That Indigo Girl, aka Michele Leroux Bustamante
• Forward-Compatible Data Contracts

Well, that should get you started to handling versioning of your WCF contracts and services.

Yesterday was the second job of my “modelling career”. You remember the first don’t you?

This time it was also for Avega and for a short interview in the annual report. Like the last time I felt really confused about wearing make-up and doing poses. This time was in the public also - at Stureplan downtown Stockholm. It was the same photographer - and he is great!

And, I have to say it don’t I, the pictures are sure to be great. It didn’t feel cheap at all ;). I’ll be sure to post some of them here as soon as I am allowed.

I am celebrating the Swedish midsummer at Hyppeln in the Gothenburg archipelago. It’s perfect place to rest after the hectic period I’ve had for a while.

The project took quite good form during the last part of the week. Feels quite good. At Hyppeln there are almost always some good photo opportunities. I hope to take some photos to post here after I’ve returned.

Happy midsummer to you all!

Oh yeah - this is the 401 th posting of this blog. Who knew?

As you might have notices the activity on the blog has been quite low for a couple of weeks. This has to do with loads of stuff piling up at work and a fully booked private calender.

The new project, that I am involved in at work, is really fun but also one of the most dazed I’ve been in. We are throwing ideas out the window every other hour. Last week I was in a design meeting from Monday morning at nine to Thursday afternoon at three. Also - as always in between these hectic meetings it’s quite hard to have thing to be busy with all the time. Confusing but very true - it will be a great project when we get the form for it (and we are well under way…)

Private - there have been things to do almost every day for the last three weeks...

Today I found a nice little tool from Google that helps readers of this blog to understand the content of it in a better way.

The tool “simply” translates the page, http://www.marcusoft.net/ in this case, into the language of your choice. Pretty cool!

I found it when my father told me that some of the nuances of the blog were lost in their translation of my page. Let’s see if Google with do a better job.

So here you go - http://www.marcusoft.net/ in 25 languages! All thanks to Google

Yeah - that’s right.. you’ll find the tool to the right, just below my links.

Yesterday we heard the first chuckle and laughter from Albert… It was a very special feeling - for the first time you could sense his voice, how he will sound when he talks. Also it was very moving to see him so happy. He couldn’t keep it in…

What made him laugh so, you might wonder? I told him to cough and tried to show him how. Apparently that was hilarious and he couldn’t stop to laugh.

I’ll try to catch it on picture the next time and upload it here. You’ll have to do with this picture in the mean time.