Good article on tracking garbage collection related problems.

Anyone else experience sudden Newsgator flakiness after installing Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2? Suddenly, Outlook regularly puts Newsgator into it's “disabled” list (Accessible via “About/Disabled Items”. I then have to restart to get Newsgator back running, but it's prone to disappearing again.) Also, it looks like my posting plug-in …

Steve Ballmer concluded that: “diversity in the workplace is such an important issue for our business that it should be included in our legislative agenda....Accordingly, Microsoft will continue to join other leading companies in supporting federal legislation that would prohibit employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation – adding …

Chris Pratley has a great blog entry on Note Flags in which he discusses “the awesome power of Note Flags Summary.”

I thought I’d supplement that with my “Getting Things Done”-inspired OneNote organization. First, I’ve customized my Note Flags to be color-coordinated and GTD-like:

Second, I organize …

I just wrote an article on Moore's Law (it's not available online yet). I ran long and am using this as a “one-to-many” footnote link:

• “Cramming More Components Onto Integrated Circuits,” Gordon Moore
• “No Silver Bullet: Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering,“ Fred Brooks
• “No Silver Bullet Revisited,“ Brad Cox …

In my latest article on Tablet PC programming on DevX, I discuss scaling, reversing, and generally transforming pen data.

Microsoft's withdrawal of support a Washington state bill aimed at outlawing discrimination based on sexual orientation is utterly foul. Microsoft wants to charge for its software, it wants to dominate markets, it wants people to use a non-tabbed browser -- all things which some have labeled Evil and I said “eh …

Clearly, I speak and Microsoft responds. Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 just became available in MSDN subscriber downloads. You're welcome.

I discuss the VB6 / VB.NET petition in my latest column for SD Times.

Eric Rudder: “...even if it's March 38th or 43rd, we will deliver [Whidbey Beta 2] in March....”

I mean, here it is tax day and we're all filled with gloom. Can't anyone do anything to relieve my depression?