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I was actually lamenting this before I've tried Egress and Pocket RSS but I still come back to NewsGator (Outlook edition) but here's what I'm missing: a way to take a post from my Inbox and send it to my Blog without losing the formatting. Right now, I use Blogger's email feature but whenever it gets to the site, it has a bunch of %20 in it and other stuff that prevent the links from working right. I was hoping Pocket RSS and/or Egress would let me do what I do in FireFox or IE - find an interesting post, right-click (or "hold-click" on a PocketPC) and then blog it. Right now, it makes my News of Interest blog very hard to read without having to correct my individual posts. I know Robert's big on the Kunal approach but I'm not always in Outlook - (except on my Pocket PC). Any ideas anyone? Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger

OK - sure it's on the xBox but it's still a great example of why the best developers unit test. And no, I'm not preaching --- it's a neat article. I try to unit test all of my VFP stuff but it's hard when things need to get out the door and someone's breathing down your neck. It's even HARDER when you're going through someone else's code as I've been doing recently. Channel9 Wiki: TheBestDeveloper

Op-Ed piece by David T. Anderson. (originally from here ) "Even though FoxPro has long been overshadowed by more glamorous products, it's still one of the best tools on the market for getting things done. With new enhancements coming in version 9.0, it's not likely to go the way of the dodo anytime soon. " Good reading for everyone who uses FoxPro. The critical stuff is on the second page: Where Does FoxPro Fit Today Visual FoxPro 9.0: Still Here, Still Relevant

This has got to be someone's attempt to simply show how silly the entire concept of patents are...unfortunately, it doesn't appear to be so. Patents Should Meet BASIC Tests of Reason

Robert posted to this and this site actually shows screen shots. I'm comparing it to what we have in Canada - Roger's PVR . We picked one up a while ago and I love it. The UI isn't as intuitive which is too bad - because Rogers has used a lot of MS technology before, using an older version of WebTV. So now that I've got a PVR, my biggest problem is I need to send the signal to all the TVs in my house (I hate lugging it around - oh sure I could buy another one but why tape in two locations?). I guess the answer COULD be a Windows Media Center Extender . Anyone have any good experiences with these? Lost Remote: Comcast deploys Microsoft TV software

Even though Scoble also posts about it here , I always find Ted's links a little more illuminating and insightful. It's not a "pro-MS" view point but the more points of view, the more informed we all can be. As Ted notes, "The irony is that Microsoft is likely to violate just as many patents, if not orders of magnitude more, but that's a lot tougher to determine with closed-source software." Actually, I thought Ted's best post on patents was the one on Poland ' in which he says "Software patents are an abomination: licensing an idea, instead of the implementation of an idea (the latter is what copyrights are). Patents will chill the software development marketplace and reserve software development for the big companies that can afford patent lawyers. Stealing another programmers copywritten code is theft; building on another programmers code is progress." Ted's Radio Weblog

Chris makes a note of the Avalon Tech Preview being available for MSDN subscribers (note to subscribers: it's not called Avalon in MSDN but simply WinFX SDK under Platform Tools,SDKs) There's a document here that talks about what's in and what's not in the Preview. Now that Avalon is going to be fully supported on WinXP and 2003 servers - it will be interesting to see if Mike's right about Winforms . One of his arguments was that WinForms run on Win98 boxes, etc. My big concern would be how fast? I've always experienced "lags" on DotNet apps even on my XP or 2003 boxes - I'm expecting much of the same from Avalon - so if they both are slow in loading, then would you really recommend such a solution for lower-end boxes such as 2000 and Win98? My experience may not be typical and there are probably some crack applications that likely run circles in DotNet but many posts I've read leave me with that "sluggish" impression. ...