Well yes actualy a lot is new. I’m currently working at BICS (Belgacom International Carrier Services) where I’m helping them with one of their projects and in the same time I’m replacing one of my co-workers who is going to leave us.

BICS has got an impressive infrastructure. I’ve even a nice display about the size of entire wall (really big !!!) I wonder if they show a nice movie in the evenings… probably not because it is being used for network monitoring.

Another thing is that last week(end) I started working on a .net wrapper around the currently very unfriendly to use ISBNDB Api. It’s an URL-based API that returns XML so there will be a lot of parsing involved, but this is actually a step I’m not doing I’m just writing a small framework to use certain classes to retrieve the XML. Maybe later on I’ll add parsing… anyways it will come available on http://www.codeplex.com/isbndbnet which is currently very low on content

Besides all of this I’m currently planning a home multimedia network. It consists of 1 media center pc with a linksys media center extender device and on top of that each room has been fitted to play music which is available over the network. For this I’m using 3 Terratec Noxon’s and 3 times a basic 2.1 speaker system from logitech. Hopefully everything will play nice together