Karls Blog

Franky pointed out that Vista Beta 2 is out :) My poor 1.5mb ADSL is working overtime with all these bits (inc 2k5 SP1 mentioned earlier today!)

Always looking to squeeze more productivity our of every day, I love it when new tools are released that make my / other people at WDGs life easier. So was wrapped to here about the TFS Admin (and other) tools on Joe Morels blog:

http://blogs.msdn.com/joemorel/archive/2006/05/17/599417.aspx

But whats even kewler is the fact that these tools are Shared Source!!! I HOPE this is a hint of things to come - LOVE IT :)

Read earlier today on Jamie Cansdales blog about Microsofts new open source hosting solution called CodePlex. I heard earlier this year that a whole bunch of MVPs may be working on something like this, and taking a quick look around, it looks FANTASTIC ... AND runs on TFS :) Very sweet indeed!!!

Been involved in this web game for more than 10 years now, so its great to take a trip down memory lane once in a while. We often dig up old versions for http://www.wdg.com.au from the Way Back machine (http://www.archive.org/web/web.php), but here is a nice image history of Yahoo!:

http://news.com.com/2300-1032_3-6072801-1.html?part=rss&tag=6072801&subj=news

With a few tips and tricks, you can get an $80 US Intel CPU to outperform todays top-of-the-line CPUs! Way kewl!

http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/05/10/dual_41_ghz_cores/

Hope eBay doesn't pull this down :)

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7412314503

VERY interesting geek read :)

http://darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=93335&WT.svl=column1_1

Most people have a phone. Most people have friends and family who love to know where they may be at any one time. Tim has combined both to make a kewl tracking site!

http://www.timhibbard.com/wherestim/default.aspx