Shut-Up and Smile

Found this today via Gunderloy, .NET University, a project setup by my old buddy Doug Turnure. In a previous life, Doug and I travelled around teaching those who would listen the love that was COM and VB. Go Doug!

Check it out and and let Doug know what you think. And did someone say free t-shirt?

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Via Ed Bott, there's a great entry by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes about how companies that offer rebates go out of their way to make it difficult to get your rebates. What's makes it even more interesting is the fact that one company has received a patent related to the whole process!

I've known this for years and now make sure I only buy a product if I'm willing to forego the rebate. The rules have bitten me many times by things like an early rebate date issue or missing information. However, now in the spirit of GTD, I fill out my rebate the minute I get home.

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You can find a link at the Virtual PC site.

Here’s a list of what’s new:

• Support for running Windows Vista in a virtual machine and running virtual machines on top of Windows Vista
• Improved performance
• Support for AMD and Intel’s hardware virtualization technology
• Support for 64-bit hosts—note the word HOSTS; guests won’t supported until Windows virtualization coming post-Longhorn Server

What’s funny is Joel Spolsky berated Microsoft for VMWare having issues with Vista when in fact Virtual PC has also has had issues that Virtual PC 2007 finally addresses.

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Tech Ed Europe this year was moved from its traditional time slot of July to this November.

After two great years in lovely Amsterdam, we're going back to Spain and the fantastic city of Barcelona!

I'll be there doing a pre-conference workshop with Kim Tripp on SQL Server, two talks on Data Dude, and a talk on Team System Developer Edition.

36 days until the start of pre-cons. Oh boy!

More details to follow

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