This Old Code

 For the sake of all those early adopters, now we can force our late adopter co-works to use our format.

Microsoft Office 2007 Compatibility Pack

I found this article on LifeHacker, but I have a question why?  I almost never use the menu, it takes up extra screen space I don't need.  In fact I am bugged that I can't hide the Google tool bar better.  I think this is some thing IE7 does right, after all 98% of the time I just want to browse a website I don't need any thing but the html view.

Link to Put IE7's file menu back where it belongs - Lifehacker

I was looking ro a VB.NET to C# converter and found Code Translation for .NET (C# <->VB.NET) It seems to work pretty good.  Little simpler then using Reflector and a plug in to generate the C# code.

I also see he has a Colorizer for posting to the web which has support for XML and c++.  Typicaly those two are left out of this type of tool.

CodeColorizer: Tool to Colorize Code in Html or RTF

Here is a list of all the tools Carlos has published all free Tools@CarlosAg.net

Here is a link to his blog I think he works for Microsofts IIS team.

I've come across this a couple times since March 2006 when it was published but I can never find it when I need to refer to the darn thing. 

Main Document:

Regulatory Compliance Demystified 

Key sections:

Sarbanes-Oxley, Section 404

Gramm-Leach Biley Act

SB 1386

Microsoft's Recommendations and Resources

Technology and Technique Best Practices

I seem to run into this problem far to often

Link to How to configure SQL Server 2005 to allow remote connections

Thought I would share a few quotes I found this evening.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.
-Henry Ford

There are 10 kinds of people in this world....Those who understand binary and those who don't

Programmer - an organism that turns coffee into software.
-Author Unknown

Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place.  So if you are as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?
-Brian Kernighan

It's not a bug - it's an undocumented feature.
-Author Unknown

I think a some what misunderstood definition of AJAX.  Though Leads 360 makes a really good point that I never really thought about, AJAX can save you a significant amount of bandwith. 

Link to BrokerUniverse

James Comtois describes some of the new Point features we have worked on.

Link to BrokerUniverse

After reading about these major Security holes in Vista, I am going to start the process of rolling back to my previous version of windows, sigh maybe its time to give FreeBSD a try.

Charlie Brooker wrote a nice article yesterday detailing how he hates Macs and how the choice of actors for the UK version of "Hello, I'm a Mac" are stingingly accurate.  I have to agree

Macs are glorified Fisher-Price activity centres for adults; computers for scaredy cats too nervous to learn how proper computers work; computers for people who earnestly believe in feng shui.

Now I personally feel dirty every time I have to use a Mac, dirty and homicidal. And I won't even get started about the one mouse button!  Nor do I buy this argument that hey are easy to use or more fun.  I mean Mac's don't come with Free Cell and they don't play any real games(until the game is ready for retirement, then they go visit mac users).

I am not even very impressed by the Mac's eye candy.  I have also found that if you have a problem on a Mac, they ostracize you, pretend you don't exist it seems like no one can have problems with the blessed Mac let alone find a solution to the problem.