Day 5
Wednesday was a solid day of coding. We got lots of stuff done, and the application is really starting to take shape. I'll promise we'll do a full web cast demo of the application before we leave Reading! On the evening we visited a really large GoKarting facility. The course was quite big, and they even had this bridge you had to drive under and under. We where randomly put together into 8 teams of 4 drivers and competed in a endurance championship. Two and a half hour of solid GoKarting, with pit-stops, driver changes and everything. It was AMAZING fun, probably one of the funniest things I've done in a LONG time. I was lucky to get on a team with three guys who where as competitive as me, so we won the competition, and I had the fastest lap of all! Just plain fun!

Day 6
Another day of just cranking out code. Tons of fun! Did the Office 2007 integration, which turns out to work really well. With Visual Studio Tools for Office 2nd edition you get support for ribbons and application level add-ins in all Office 2007 applications. We've implemented an application for healthcare professionals to connect to the MediWatch server and download data.

Day 7
Friday was the day of the Windows Vista release for developers in the UK. We got a chance to see an really amazing proof of concept application for the London underground, written by Microsoft and the London underground IT department. They built the application over three weeks at the Microsoft Technology Centre, and the end result was just amazing. The application let you view trains move in real time in a sweet WPF application. You could do all kinds of things like turning on and off tracks, looking at heat maps, breakdowns, crime ratings etc. for the different stations. They also had a 3D map of the underground giving you an impression on how the different stations are layered on different depths.

Sanjay Parthasarathy, Corporate Vice President, Developer & Platform Evangelism Group, was in Reading for the Vista launch, so he also took time to drop by the teams to see how they were doing.

Day 8
Saturday was quite laidback, and we hade a late breakfast and only stayed at the Microsoft Campus to five in the afternoon. We then went into Reading for an amazing meal at the Chilli resturant. We then went out on town, and Woo from the Microsoft Technology Centre where doing a good job making sure everyone had enough beer. We finished the night at the Walkabout disco, a large two floor disco. It turns out Reading have quite good nightlife, and people from smaller city around Reading come in to Reading in the weekends to party.

Day 9
Sunday was a day off, and Wendy had arranged with train tickets for everyone so that we could get a chance to see London. Gøran, Hans Olav and I first visited the Madam Tussouds, which was lots of fun. It was way larger than I expected, and some of the wax figures where just amazingly real. Lots of picture to come! We then did some shopping in Oxford street, and spent some time at the London Apple store. It's probably the coolest store I've ever seen, so definitely going back there next week with Hege!

We finished the day with a round in the London eye, catching a great view over London, before having dinner at a stake house.

Day  10
Today we've spent most of the day working on our application. I finally figured out how to do background add-ins inside Vista Media Center, and how to load up a WPF browser application, so now everything is pretty much set. Things are coming together, and it looks like we'll have a brand new demo ready for BT tower Friday.

Today was also the meeting day for Microsoft Architect Council, and Team Norway was invited to give a presentation about our project and our Imagine Cup experience. The Architect Council consists of the most experienced software architects from all of Brittan, so that was lots of fun.

In the evening we had a gaming night, with 360 network gaming, pizza and beer. I did some video filming, but I left the cables at the campus, so I'll have to youtube the video later. We had 6 Xbox 360's available, and played some Gears Of War, Fifa, PES6 and Ghost Recon.