Fans gather outside the hotel
A group of noisy fans have formed outside the hotel. Aussie team member Rex Chung has “no comment” on the marriage proposal.
Archive for the ‘News’ Category
Listen’ Up Ya’ll - Sabotage!
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)
A touch of light reading anyone?
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?
Renae (in pr mode)
Hot New Videos
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 The Aussie Team
Introducing The Kiwis
Renae (karaoke queen)
Bored!
Well folks, things have taken a turn to the dull-side. Both teams are plugging away so quietly and efficiently there’s really nothing new to report. Russ is pushing me, like the bully he is, to pull out more stories, drum up controversy, stab him in the cheek with a biro, anything to spice things up at this stage. Now, I did witness Fiona colluding with Jeff outside the venue and I did warn them that I was onto whatever it is they were up to. It wouldn’t have been to discuss server issues, or to share a cigarette. No, you and I know that it was something far more sinister than that. Any ideas? Post them here.
Fiona - let’s keep an eye on this darkhorse…
Renae (seeking excitement)
All Quiet On The Home Front
The Australian Team have settled down into the finer details now so there is less excited energy and more focused concentration. The smiles are still abounding though, and fresh coffee has arrived so everyone is happy. Jeff asked if he should ‘jump around and shout and stuff’ like the kiwi’s did but I advised everyone to ‘hang onto their dignity’.
Renae
Lies, Lies & Statistics?
This just in from Kym, who is monitoring the stats for both sites. So far there have been 150 visitors from around the planet looking at the two sites, including 25 from America and a further 20 from Asia.
“Considering there is nothing there to look at I think we are going very well” says Kym.Renae (trying not to eat too much mochi on the job)
2 cheers from the NZ team
What is going on?!
Apparently it was coffee related … ahhhh
No doubt some welcome relief.
Amira
Accessible cheesecakes
Had a brief chat with Alison Green over the sumptuous desert buffet….mmm. Whilst working out whether or not to have normal cheesecake or cheesecake enhanced with Green jelly, we discussed the upcoming Grampians Disability Advocacy website. Alison seemed quite calm and was anticipating her teams task of making the site as accessible as possible for many different people. The need for quite a high level of accessibility and the challenge of making it all happen in 24 hours could prove interesting to watch. The client apparently was here this morning briefing the NZ team and had just popped out for lunch. The Grampians Disability Advocacy content was easy to divide up - usability for everyone - being the key to making the site work well.
Amira
Thinking ‘Outside The Box’ & ‘The Circle’
The NZ team have asked if they can do something outside of the established guidelines. It’s a rather reasonable request involving the engagement of ‘outsiders’ to do some user testing on their beta site. It’s a great suggestion, especially since they are designing for users with a disability. After some deliberation from the organisers, the suggestion was taken to the Australian team for discussion. A decision was made to allow each team a 2 hour time frame to conduct user testing. They are under no circumstances allowed to use this time as an opportunity to test other things like whether their code is validating or not. No cheating here folks!
Renae.