It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.
Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi (1893 - 1986)

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)

"Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right."
- Henry Ford (1863-1947)
"A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems."
- Paul Erdos (1913-1996)
"The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it."
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
"Talent does what it can; genius does what it must."
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)

"The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'."

"When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world."
- George Washington Carver (1864-1943)

"Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth."
- Sherlock Holmes (by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930)

"Black holes are where God divided by zero."
- Steven Wright

"There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life."
- Frank Zappa

"It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts."
- G. B. Burgin

"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."
- Jimi Hendrix

"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."
- Will Durant

"I have often regretted my speech, never my silence."
- Xenocrates (396-314 B.C.)

"If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?"
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing

Experience is a hard teacher, because she gives test first, the lesson afterwards

Everything is hard before it is easy
-Goethe

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.

Came across some useful undocumented sproc
1)sp_MSforeachtable - it iterates through all the tables of the current DB

Eg.
sp_MSForEachTable 'exec sp_spaceused "?"' -- To get the spaces used by individual sprocs
EXEC sp_MSforeachtable @command1="print '?' DBCC DBREINDEX ('?')" -- To reindex all the tables in the DB

2) And use sp_MSforeachdb to iterated through all the DBs

3) sp_MSdrop_object to drop any object by providing its id/ name etc