Archive for August, 2007

Team updates

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Half Way There

18 August 2007 | admin | Comments Off

We’ve just gone over the half-way mark and some strange things are happening in the judges room. Discussions about penguins not eating polar bears, accessibility being ’so old hat’ and plenty of the hard stuff and now Fiona is singing Advance Australia Fair. Someone shoot me, shoot me now. Not to mention the fatigue …

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Full Code Press: Aussie Decision Making

18 August 2007 | admin | 2 Comments »

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Team Australia cracking under pressure?

18 August 2007 | admin | 1 Comment »

The evidence.

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CodeBlacks at the 9hr mark

18 August 2007 | admin | Comments Off

I asked Thomas Scovell, NZ project manager if they’re on track. The answer, “Yes, surprisingly!” The CodeBlacks are working to a timeline they’d drawn up earlier, and althought they knew it would change some, what’s pleasing is how little it actually has.

The team has found the client “awesome” to deal with. They’ve had a lot time with …

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Fans gather outside the hotel

18 August 2007 | admin | 6 Comments »

A group of noisy fans have formed outside the hotel. Aussie team member Rex Chung has “no comment” on the marriage proposal.

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Listen’ Up Ya’ll – Sabotage!

18 August 2007 | admin | No Comments »

This just in: the Australian client is busted waltzing into the Code Blacks room to ask if they wanted to “go to the pub”. Shocking!

Renae (off to do some serious work now)

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A touch of light reading anyone?

18 August 2007 | admin | Comments Off

The good folk over at Site Point have been kind enough to donate their engaging reference books for both teams so they now have pride of place in the lock-ins. It begs the question though, are our experts too advanced to actually make use of these rockin’ gifts?

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Hot New Videos

17 August 2007 | admin | 1 Comment »

I’m inflicting the judges room with the Theme From S-Express, “I’ve got the hots for you!” “ba, bu dam, bababa doo dum” and attempting to blog through the silliness. Here’s some great new videos to keep you amused (because we all know my dorky antics won’t)…

The Aussie Team Get Started

Interviews With …

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Trash-talking

17 August 2007 | admin | 2 Comments »

We can’t imagine who the CodeBlacks are referring to!

Still, dissing the judges might be a bad tactical move.

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