I wish the best of luck to Team Web414 as they compete in the F1 Web Site Challenge this weekend. One of the reasons I could not go, is because I am on another team… Team Z1.

Team Z1 will be playing against Team Z2 (though we’re all Z2, but Z1 is the Black Team and Z2 is the Red Team, confused yet?) Anyway, The gang at Z2 Marketing + Design will be playing soccer at the U.S. Cellular Arena on Sunday, March 2nd, before the Milwaukee Wave game.

The Wave plays at 2PM, so come early and see us run around the field like a bunch of total spazzes and attempt to score a goal. Bring your camera, it’ll be fun (and humiliating) for everyone! (I’m on the Black Team, so cheer for us…)

Update: My team lost, and I hurt my legs pretty bad. There is a reason goalies wear long pants, sleeves, and gloves!

This is the tenth song for the RPM Challenge, it’s called “Mother Sink” and features Gabe on vocals. You should be able to hear it right on this page, using the embedded player below.

You can grab it from Ourmedia or the Internet Archive, or blip.tv, and it’s got a Creative Commons Attribution License. (If you need something else, get in touch with me.)

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This is the ninth song for the RPM Challenge, it’s called “Empty Pockets” cuz that’s what I got. You should be able to hear it right on this page, using the embedded player below.

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I gave a presentation at Web414 last night about MilwaukeeDevHouse.

Because I am FAIL! at using office suites, I did the presentation in S5, and it’s called MilwaukeeDevHouse, FTW?

MilwaukeeDevHouse1 will be taking place Friday, March 14th, 2008 at Bucketworks in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Get there around 7PM, stay until you fall over.

Photos in the presentation provided by Scott Beale aka Laughing Squid. Inspiration for MilwaukeeDevHouse courtesy of SuperHappyDevHouse… Thanks yo!

This is the eighth song for the RPM Challenge, it’s called “FAIL!” because that seems to be the thing right now. You should be able to hear it right on this page, using the embedded player below.

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MilwaukeeDevHouse1 will take place March 14, 2008, and we hope to see you there.

Sure, we hope to combines serious and not-so-serious productivity with a fun and exciting party atmosphere, but what do you plan do when you are there?

SuperHappyDevHouse23 just took place, and here’s a few things people had on their TO DO list for it:

• solar-powered Arduino
• Hello World in Adobe Air
• home automation web UI
• trying to learn how to write a stored proc in Postgresql
• reading about hotel software.
• Working on a coupl’a Facebook apps
• Working on a random heatmap overlay generator

I’ve already had one person say “I’ll bring nasty toxic chemicals to etch PC boards and make something” so already, we’re looking at something interesting happening. :)

This is the seventh song for the RPM Challenge, it’s called “Shipwrecked Crew” and I actually sing… sort of. You should be able to hear it right on this page, using the embedded player below.

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This is the sixth song for the RPM Challenge, it’s called “Small Hands” and I had the help of Emma and Maddy on the intro and keyboard tracks. You should be able to hear it right on this page, using the embedded player below.

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Some of the Web414 members will be trekking up to Minneapolis to compete in the F1 Website Challenge, which is a (friendly?) competition between web-builders to create web sites for Minnesota non-profit organizations.

The team from Web414 consists of Matt Gauger, Jeramey Jannene, Kevin Ciesielski, Blake Hall, Abraham Williams, Ashe Dryden, Sam Nobiensky, and Tracy Apps.

A few members of this team were responsible for kicking out ihatetreehouses.info in a matter of hours, in a late night session at BarCampMilwaukee2. Just imagine what they can do when they have an actual real-world project to focus on.

Sadly, I can’t take part, as I have to play soccer that weekend, but I look forward to seeing what they can do. And hey, it’s all for a good cause. In fact, I’ve already heard talk that a similar event for helping Wisconsin non-profit organizations may take place in Milwaukee in 2008. How’s that for cool?

I can’t help but guess that Web414 may end up using Drupal cuz most of us are fans of it. It’ll be interesting to see how they do against the other teams, who are listing things like .Net and Ruby as their platforms of choice.

Good luck Team Web414!

This is the fifth song for the RPM Challenge, it’s called “Watertown” and mixes acoustic and electric and liquid. You should be able to hear it right on this page, using the embedded player below.

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This is the fourth song for the RPM Challenge, it’s called “Pressure Cooker” and it is slow and dingy. You should be able to hear it right on this page, using the embedded player below.

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This is the third song for the RPM Challenge, it’s called “Attention” and it’s got keyboards, and hey, I don’t even really know how to play the keyboards! You should be able to hear it right on this page, using the embedded player below.

You can grab it from blip.tv and it’s got a Creative Commons Attribution License. (If you need something else, get in touch with me.) Oh yeah, sorry, but I broke the fragile connection between SpinXpress, Ourmedia, and the Internet Archive so until that’s fixed, I’ll put stuff on blip.tv Update: Ok, problems fixed, also now at Ourmedia and the Internet Archive.

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This is the second song for the RPM Challenge, it’s called “Nashotah Falls” and it might be depressing. You should be able to hear it right on this page, using the embedded player below.

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This is the first song for the RPM Challenge, it’s called “Stress Test” and it might just stress you out a bit. You should be able to hear it right on this page, using the embedded player below.

You can grab it from Ourmedia or the Internet Archive, or blip.tv, and it’s got a Creative Commons Attribution License. (If you need something else, get in touch with me.)

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