I submitted a registration form for PenguinSound to sourceforge. The project page seems to be there, but I haven't received any email from the sourceforge administrators regarding it.
I bought Intersound - the new album from Ju Ju Space Jazz. It sounds much more mature than past albums. I'm very impressed with track 7 "Secrets", I'm sure I've heard it before. Intersound was released by Creative Vibes who also put out the wonderful "Just Is" compilation.
I went to Object World in Darling Harbour, courtesy of the company I work for. I haven't been to Darling Harbour for a long time and apart from Sega World I was pleased with what I saw, although they could do with a few more trees to provide shade along either side of the the harbour.
The seemed to be a stong contingent of Java programmers present and many of the talks were about Java related technology. Brad Abrams gave a talk on Microsoft's .NET framework. They have developed a Common Language Runtime that enables COM objects to be treated as standard objects in each language. Any .NET class written in any language, can be used as a COM class without any extra work. The compilers for each language emit code in an Intermediate Language - MSIL. The MSIL code can be compiled to native code at run-time or install-time. Brad Abrams emphasised the freedom of the developer to develop in their prefered language. He was met with questions regarding the support of J++ under .NET, and ponderings on paper clips.