The Computer Languages timeline was posted in one of the internal Avanade communities by a colleague and is pretty cool. Seems like Fortran was the "father" (or "mother" depending on your perspective) of all languages. 
Jun 07 2007
Computer Languages History
Jun 07 2007
Outlook 2007 Performance Fix
Microsoft has released a update (KB933493 for those interested) for Outlook 2007 which helps improve some perf issues when your PST files get very large. I have not seen this myself but then my PST files are approx 1.5gb. More details can be found at Neowin.
Jun 07 2007
Aero Wallpaper Pack
A few people have released an interesting set of wallpapers which although they say is for Aero, you can use it with any OS. You can see a screenshot here and download it from here (~16 mb).
Jun 07 2007
WPF Application Portfolio
The WPF wiki on Channel 9 has a WPF Application Portfolio – some are cool and some are surprisingly useful. Many of these can be deployed with ClickOnce making it convenient. If you are not on Vista you will need the .NET 3.0 bits.
Jun 06 2007
MVP Threatened
This surely can not do any good? Jamie who created TestDriven.NET is involved in a legal dispute with Microsoft. This is not he Microsoft I know and work with on almost a daily basis! Hopefully common sense will kick in.
On a separate note, Steve Jobs vs Bill Gates – who is the saint and who is cut-throat villain of Geekdom? Cult of Mac at Wired has an interesting read on the subject.
Jun 05 2007
HTC Touch
HTC just released a new phone here in the UK called HTC Touch. Not only is this very cool but is something you can touch, feel (and buy) today in the UK unlike the over-hyped iPhone. 
There are of course more pictures, not to mention the specs and videos.
Jun 04 2007
Wacky Mouse Showdown
If you wanna kill some time and get amused at the same time, check out ExtremeTech's Wacky Mouse Showdown.
Jun 03 2007
Windows Live Writer Beta 2 – finally!
Windows Live Writer, after a lot of talk, finally has an update in the shape of Beta 2 and in addition to the obvious ones (such as support of Sharepoint 2007 and Windows Live Spaces) there are more features. Some of the new features are table editing, better category support, new API's (which I cannot attribute having never programmed against the API), etc. However, the plugin section does seem to finally be integrated better since I last saw it which was a while ago.
Interestingly, the new spell checker seems to not like "Sharepoint" (see screen shot below) unlike Word which can recognize the spelling mistake.
Jun 01 2007
Life without an MCE
I must say after getting used to viewing TV (and Movies) via a MCE – not having one is sorely missed. Recently the machine was randomly hanging and a few blue-screens and as it turns out one of my memory sticks went bad which was causing the issues.
Although I had bought the memory from Crucial, over two years ago – they have a lifetime warranty. I called them and they immediately volunteered to change both the sticks (as I was running them in dual-channel). I was running the machine fine on one stick albeit a little slow, but I decided to send in both sticks and get things back to "normal". Now I have been waiting for just over a week to get back the replacement memory. Which means for just over a week and we don't have a MCE running at home and boy I was surprised that we miss it! 
Watching "Live TV" is just not done now – not to mention the fact the guide in Sky is quite irritating with the stupid music and the full-screen mode – where the whole screen switches back to the guide hiding whatever you were watching.
On a little different note, I was quite amazed with the service and professionalism of Crucial while dealing with them on the phone. Yes it has taken a little longer than I was told (although to be fair they said turn around is "quick" and I was not given any specific time – but at the same time I did not ask for a timeline). I just got off the phone with them and I have been told the memory should be shipping out today with express delivery! I just wish there were more companies who did such an excellent job of customer service! 
Jun 01 2007
Upgraded to CS 2007 SP1
SP1 for CS 2007 has been available for about 3 weeks, and I finally got around to upgrading to that. Everything seems to be working fine, but if you find something amiss please drop me a note and let me know.
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