Codswallop

Another Aussie leading into the final round of a tournament, another Aussie crumbling like a cookie! Stuart Appleby went into the final round of the AT&T National with a two shot lead over the eventual winner K.J. Choi but shot a final round 76, 6 over par. Well done to K.J. Choi, he has been on fire this year. K.J. joins Tiger, Vijay, Phil and Zach as a multiple winner this year. The win also pushes him to 4th in the FedEx points race. Overall it was still a pretty good tournament for the Aussies with five players in the top twenty.

Aussie Stuart Appleby has a share of the lead with K.J. Choi after the second at the AT&T National being played at the Congressional Country Club. Both players have shot rounds of 66 & 67 to be at -7, three shots ahead of the next best. Stuart Appleby was a multiple winner on the tour last year, taking out the opening event the Mercedes Championship for the third straight year and the Shell Houston Open. Stuart has yet to win this year, his best finish was his defence of the Shell Houston Open where he finished second to fellow Australian Adam Scott.

Meanwhile over on the Nationwide Tour, another Aussie Scott Gardiner has the half way lead. Jason Day is also doing well at two stokes behind on -8. I wouldn't be surprised to see both of these players on the main tour next year. They currently sit at 43 and 33 respectively on the money list, the top 25 qualify for the main tour.

When/Where
Date: Thursday 12th July 2007
Time: 7.00pm

Address
Hitwise Melbourne
Level 6, 580 St Kilda Rd
Melbourne

Expression Studio Round Up - Dave Glover - 7:15 - 8:00pm

Coinciding with the official release of Silverlight, Microsoft have recently launched a bunch of brand new tools for web development work called Expression Studio, with the express purpose of enabling collaboration between developers and designers in creating standards based websites. Featured in this suite of applications is Expression Web, a web authoring tool with comprehensive support for CSS and... PHP!
Dave Glover will be coming along to give us the low-down.


Doing Silverlight with PHP - Ben Cornwell - 8:15 - 9:00pm

Silverlight is Microsoft's offering in the world of rich-client platforms like Flex and Open Laszlo. Based on XAML, Silverlight provides a framework for creating user interfaces for the web that are standards compliant, great looking and encompass complex animation, audio and video.
Ben's presentation will provide an introduction to Silverlight and a live demonstration of how to create Silverlight interfaces with PHP and AJAX.


Socialising & Networking - 9:00pm onward

After the meeting we'll be moving downstairs to the Cartel Bar, for an informal chat over a few cold ones.

Pizza, softdrink, tea, coffee and comfy swivel chairs will be provided
with compliments of our major sponsor, Hitwise.

Cristie Kerr has won a rain affected the 2007 US Womens Open ahead of the world's current number one play Lorena Ochoa and Angela Park.

The best finishing Aussie was Katherine Hull who finished a tie for 25th. Australia's highest ranked player and world number two Karrie Webb missed the cut after a 12 over par opening round.

I couldn't help but do a quick follow up to my recent Andrew Kontra round up posting. I talked about how Alan and Joe were ranking for the keyword Andrew Kontra on the various search engines. To my amusement I'm now ranking ahead of both of them for three of the search engines

• Yahoo!
• Google Blog Search
• Technorati

And I've hit the front page on google for Andrew Kontra too ... watch out.
Alan and Joe .. you suck! Don't give up your day jobs
Hahaaahaa

follow up - now number one on live.com for "Andrew Kontra"