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Well, the one constant in life is change, and as the new cycle of ambassodors has been announced, I happily pass the baton. I chose not to re-apply this year, as

1. I have had much less time recently, and
2. Now that the ambassador tenure has been lengthened, I think changing personnel makes for a better program

Anyway, I hope the current group is able to further evolve this great program. I will of course not be giving up my current role in my local LEGO community, with plans already well underway for next year’s Brickvention. And it’s good to see another local AFOL, Sue Ann Barber, in the program – hopefully the big forward steps we’ve had in company / AFOL relations recently can be continued and dare I say, improved?

Off down to Warnambool this weekend to set up the M>ltc train layout for their Fun 4 Kids festival, which runs from 29th June to 6th July. There’s lots of activities, you can read more on their website.

After an upgrade of WordPress yesterday, I failed to test everything thoroughly, and it seems the upgrade broke the instructions download links. Well actually if the truth be known, the upgrade highlighted a piece of bad code in my page…

But anyway, after being informed of the problem, I have quickly fixed it, and we should be all set to go now. Enjoy!

Another update to my LEGO instructions cross-reference, find them here. Highlights include:

Indiana Jones: New Sets
Factory: Skulls, Star Justice
Racers: New Sets
Mars Mission: New Sets

Oh, and General Grievous

And a few other goodies 😉

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Thanks for corrections to:

• Peeron.com

Bram van der Vlist and Rick van de Westelaken have created a neural network manager for the NXT using Java. The training is done on a PC, then the trained network can be loaded and run autonomously on the NXT. Neat stuff! Read more here.