I’ll admit it’s been a bit quiet with new entries from me. It’s not that I didn’t want to write anything, or didn’t have anything to write about. I simply did not have as much time as I would like to sit down and write something. When I did have the time, I simply forgot or did other things to fill the time with!

Ever since finishing The Templar Trilogy by Jack Whyte, I have wanted to write an entry about the Knights Templar. It opened my eyes to a few things, especially that they, as well as the Romans and Egyptians, might have sailed to America long before Columbus. I did a little research on it (I really mean it when I say little…) and found there are as many people supporting this theory as opposing it. I’ll look into this in more detail when I give myself a little time to pursuit my interests in the period of the Crusades and the Templars.

I’ve also just finished the fifth book in the Temeraire series. If you have never heard of these books at all, you’ve missed out on something! It’s about the war between the English and the French in the time of Napoleon. Except, it’s been dipped into a sauce of fantasy with both sides possessing an aerial force of dragons! Great books to read. More to come on this later as well, I suppose.

In the games department I’m eagerly awaiting the arrivals of F1 2010 and Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood. I think F1 2010 is set for release here in Europe tomorrow. It’ll be good fun to dust off my steering wheel again, hook it up to the XBox and get some laps in! AC: Brotherhood looks to be awesome as well. If it’s as good as its predecessor, which I think it is and possibly even better, it will give me many hours of entertainment!

Besides writing about my personal interests, I’d also love to rant a little about Castle Windsor. No, no. Not Windsor Castle, which is located just outside of London and is residence to the English Royal family (I think?!). Castle Windsor is a Dependency Injection and Inversion of Control container for the Microsoft .NET framework. Whichever resource I stumble across, everyone thinks its awesome and made of win. I’m sure it is, I just wish there was a more coherent resource available on how to deal with it in a large enterprise application architecture. Again, more to come on this later!