I fell asleep during the Megadeth bit – sorry Dave. Not to be nasty, but I think Megadeth would have done a lot better with another vocalist. Everything else was good, it’s just that the vocals did not work for me at all.

And then Metallica. Man, they are simply in a class of their own. Good show, and “Am I evil” with all the guys playing together was magnificent. You’ll be hard pressed to ever find a fuller, fatter sound than the drums, bass & rhythm of four of the all time great metal bands put together on one song.

Two not so lekker things: 1 – I left my earplugs at home thinking it won’t be that loud. Big mistake. The sound quality inthe theatre is excellent so you don’t really realise how loud it was until you walk out. It’s 14 hours later and I can still feel the after effects. Heard the same from the guys in the other theatres. Heard….mwahahaha.
2: Although 75% full there was not much energy to be felt from the other people there. I heard it was a lot better in Brooklyn, but where I was I started feeling awkward tapping my feet to the beat. Everyone just sat while I thought we were going to be jumping on seats…

All in all a good show, finished at 1am. I thought I was going to be spread a bit thin today, but all is good. The boss is gone so it’s going to be an early afternoon

This weekend:
Delivering on my pet project tomorrow morning. Then entertain myself for a coupl of hours until Landmine Rock starts. Sunday looks like it’s going to be and my slackline. I might go check out some bouldering too – 2 spots I’ve been meaning to go see. Nothing new, but both spots seems to have stayed under the radar despite being close and safe. Hopefully not because it’s shit….

Other than that, it’s Friday afteroon – what are you still doing here?!

…..makes Jack a dull boy ( that’s a bad thing, I think ). Sooooo, I finished up my little private job despite some, shall we say, “challenges” wrt to my work environment - tonight it’s me and the boys from Metallica.

My project entailed updating software I wrote some 6 years back called “Problem Solving and Decision Making” for my friend Louis of RDM fame who created the problem solving methodology. Now for anyone not familiar with software life cycles, 6 years is like 175 in software-years – I’m quite proud of this simple but effective little program.

Updating was needed as it was written in (VB) .Net 1 based on an MSDE database engine. MSDE in order to scale to SQL servers of course, no puny Access db’s for the BigBadWolf thank you very much. Seriously though, at the time and to this day most if not all potential clients run Microsoft sites, so there’s no sense in trying to do it in something like MySQL.

Installing it on newer operating systems like Vista and Windows 7 became more and more problematic to the point where I decided an upgrade was in order. Converted it to C# and upgraded it to .Net 3.5, running on SQLExpress 2008.

Ok, that wraps up the consultant-speak section of this post. Back to the important stuff: