Every 10 seconds, somewhere on this earth, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.
I hate the country, all those animals walking around un-cooked.
I'd give a thousand dollars to be one of them there millionaires!
I'm gonna survive or die trying.
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

‘‘There is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to achieve it.''
-NAPOLEON HILL

MS News
Yesterday MS revealed that a new game development platform dubbed XNA will be delivered by MS
XNA will use DirectX will continue to be the "baseline environment"

"The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is thinking that having problems is a problem."
-Theodore Rubin

"Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense regardless of how it turns out."-- Vaclav Havel

Tried out the Microsoft Plus! Dancers
Amazing quality and great set of characters

An interesting presentation on BizTalk from MS

BizTalk 2004 launched yesterday
My new best friend BizTalks... new avatar availble now

If you know how.. you will always have a job.
If you know why.. you will always be a boss.

Gates on security
"There are a lot of different challenges out there," Gates noted.
"We've got to have the right tools. We've got to have the right
processes. The people who attack these systems are getting more and
more sophisticated. For every time we take a type of attack and
eliminate that as an opportunity, they move up to a whole new level.
And that's not an unending process. We can make it dramatically more
difficult, but we have to keep that in mind: This is a
measure-countermeasure type environment."

MS deal with ebay
MS signs deal with ebay by which Office components such as Excel and Front page can connect to ebay site and get lattest bidding etc

http://www.developer.ebay.com/devprogram

Means to an end ... web begging

Was telling a firend about RSS the other day, and got stomped by a couple of questions really ....
but fact remins that RSS isnt going to get all that popular w/o a business model attached to it and how the business folks can attach a dollar value to it ....rss is going to be in developerland for time to come

Good MS blog here

Cyber Sabotage in the cold war era
Read about a CIA sponsored sabotage and how it hit a cyberia oil facility here

Microsoft WMV 9
The DVD Forum has approved the popular Microsoft Windows Media
Video (WMV) 9 format as a mandatory technology for any device seeking
the high-definition DVD (HD-DVD) logo. In other words, to use the
logo, next-generation DVD players and other DVD-playback devices must
support WMV.