I recently needed to install VS.NET 2005 beta 2 from an .iso image to a Virtual PC. Solution...this handy utility, Virtual CDRom Control Panel, for mounting .iso images as virtual disk drives. This utility is free, but un-supported from Microsoft. Its UI is a bit crude and quirky at times, but it did the job. Enjoy.

Check out some of the videos of one of my software heros, a distinguished engineer at Microsoft, Anders Hejlsberg.

Here's another one of the crazy videos.  The end makes it worth it :)

I wanted to share this quote I recently came across from poet and professor Stanley Wiersma (good Dutch name ;):

"When you are too sure about God and faith, you are sure of something other than God: of dogma, of the church, of a particular interpretation of the Bible. But God cannot be pigeonholed. We must press toward certainty, but be suspicious when it comes too glibly."

This is the best Windows task switcher I've seen yet...Top desk from Otaku Software for $10.  Do note that to run it smoothly requires a lot of RAM and a hefty video card.  Thanks for sharing the tip Scott (this is why blogs are so cool)!

I did it...I finally got engaged!  I asked the girl of my dreams to marry me.  We took a trip to Miami to visit my parents and I asked her to be my wife on the beach.  Here are the photos.  Enjoy :)

I've been playing with Whidbey (VS.NET 2005) for a couple of days now and just found this new feature.  I must say I'm quite impressed.  Microsoft has made it so easy to debug code that now we really have no excuse for writing bugs into our software :)

Have you ever been at a place in life where you've felt so fortunate and blessed to the point where good stuff is piled on top of other good stuff, higher and higher? I've found myself in a similar place recently and I have been doing some reflection about that.

Much ado about nothing.