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I think the .NET Framework is great. It is great for web and fat client apps, web services, etc. I think the mistake Microsoft made with it, is it isn’t required with the OS. Too many people don’t have it. It isn’t feasible to develop a fat client app with .NET and expect widespread installations. [...]

Imagine – what a great song. Perfect lyrics, melody, rhythm. I recorded this back on 12/19/2005 – I didn’t post it up because I used it as part of a Christmas gift to people, with a few other songs. Thought it would be good to post up :) Imagine

Looks like you can get some microsoft “Themes” for free. Aquarium, Nature, Space, Da Vinci. Even the english installer is in French, so if you can get your way through that you will have the themes. If you are the kind of person who likes themed cursors and icons and sounds, this is for you! [...]

this is awesome. automate your grand piano to take soap messages and play the notes, and vice versa. totally cool. MSDN TV Holiday Episode III (note: I couldn’t get this to work in firefox)

well, trying to make egg nog today (why not get drunk holiday style)…went to the gas station to get whipping cream as I thought it would be quick, #1 they are in pints so I had to do some quick math :) and then I only had one quart and had to go back to [...]

I have been super busy these last few weeks, with work, holiday stuff, etc. There have been things I have been meaning to post but just havent got around to it. Hope everyone has a good holiday season :)

I just installed MSN Messenger 8.0 Beta and I’d have to say it is pretty cool. Different, but cool. Looks like it has big improvements in contact management. You can rename contacts (nicknames) and it just seems better in that area. The GUI is new too, which is a change for once.

I just released PocketBlogger 1.3 which adds support for MSN Spaces. Here is my post over at pocketblogger.net if anyone is interested Version 1.3 Released (MSN Spaces Support)

Today I went to the Vikings game! What a great time. We left at around 6:30 AM to get down to tailgating behind the target center. 10 degrees above zero and we are grilling and drinking beer at 9 AM – Great time, a little cold, but fun. The we took the light rail to [...]

Dang, today at work loading up Visual Studio was taking like 5 minutes at 100% cpu. I rebooted, looked at task mgr, etc, nothing unusual. I turned off realtime virus scanning and boom! – it loads so fast its crazy. Just something that hasn’t been an issue, but creeped up and up on me, making [...]