Active Desktop
All this talk of DesktopX actually made me try out the "ActiveDesktop" on the new W2K box. I've put my home page and the Subhonker Filter on my desktop.
I'd never do this to my machine, I don't trust this stuff, but hey this isn't MY machine! 
DX extends VDE
The person who did VDE is the person doing DesktopX. Check out this page for the full effect of VDE.
Eye Candy… mmm…
Wicked stuff... Stardock, one of my all time favourite companies, is working on DesktopX, which was inspired by OpenDoc, and hopes to bring similar metaphors to Windows/COM. (cf article from The Register)
Seed Destruction
9 of the 16 seeded women have already been eliminated at Wimbledon 2000.
10 of the 16 seeded men have already been eliminated at Wimbledon 2000.
WHAT THE HELL? It's only the start of the 3rd round!
New machine…
Oooh... ahhh. My customer (yes, customer) sent me a new computer (PIII600/256MB) to do development on, since my computer is not very beefy (P233MMX/128MB).
This is my first serious experience with Windows 2000. Everything's different! It's taking me forever to find things that I could find in NT4. To be expected, it's just a little disorienting.
Thankfully, this machine has two video cards in it so I have both of my 19" monitors plugged into it.
Now I have to install all of the software I need to be productive.
Calvin and Hobbes
What a grand day! I found a link to the official Calvin and Hobbes web site on Faisal.com. They're reissuing the cartoons, on a daily basis, starting from 1985. *contentment*
An introduction to C#
An Introduction to C# -- once I allow myself to unlearn the mantras (or handcuffs) that disciplined Java programming has burdened me with, and reaffirm to myself that I am a smart programmer, or at least, was before I started programming in Java, that I can handle doing "unsafe things" without shooting myself in the foot, I see that C# is indeed a sweet language that I could do great things with.
There are numerous things I don't like about it, but then there are many things I don't like about Java and every other language too.
My hope now is that C#'s runtime and classes are ported far and wide. I like the tie-in with XML and SOAP. I don't like the tie-in with Windows.
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