Seth recently asked:

If no one reads your post, does it exist?

What do most people get out of blogging? After all, most blogs are virtually unread by outsiders...

The act of writing a blog changes people, especially business people. The first thing it does is change posture. Once you realize that no HAS to read your blog, that you can't MAKE them read your blog, you approach writing with humility and view readers with gratitude. The second thing it does is force you to be clear. If you write something that's confusing or in shorthand, you fail.

Respectful and clear. That's a lot to get out of something that doesn't take much time.

Or maybe I just like like the sound of crickets. After all silence is golden right?

The EPA is telling us, they will have more accurate mileage estimates

Last night I got a letter from MSDN.  If you have been in away and missed it the Daylight Saving Time has changed read on to see what might be affected if you use DOT NET or CRT.

Dear Valued Microsoft Customer,
In 2005, the United States government passed the Energy Policy Act of 2005. This act changes the start and end dates for Daylight Saving Time (DST) as of spring 2007. These changes may impact the way applications run. Microsoft is releasing an update for Windows through Microsoft Update that reflects these changes.
Developers who use the .NET Framework may find their applications affected if the application uses the time zone information for historical purposes or if they have derived custom classes from System.TimeZone to provide custom time zone information. The standard System.TimeZone class provides a managed wrapper for the underlying Windows Operating System time zone functions.
In addition, developers who use Visual C++ may find their applications affected if they use the CRT time functions, or the TZ environment variable. Microsoft is currently working on a fix for this issue and will post information about its availability on the Visual Studio Support page.
Most applications that use these affected classes will not need to be modified as this update will ensure that the correct data is provided seamlessly to the application. However, applications that use these classes or the underlying Windows API to perform historical time look-ups will need to be modified.
In most cases, developers who have extended the .NET Framework’s time zone support by creating custom time zone classes derived from System.TimeZone, or by direct access to the Win32 API, will not have to update their applications as long as the available updates to the operating system are applied. However, solutions that rely on private time zone data, or that retrieve system time zone information by accessing the registry directly, may need to be updated. Applications that deal with historical time zone data may also need to be updated.
Microsoft advises all developers who make use of time zone data to test their applications against this update to ensure that their applications function correctly.
For more detailed information and the latest updates please visit http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/bb264729.aspx, Preparing for daylight saving time changes in 2007, and KB928388: 2007 time zone update for Microsoft Windows operating systems

Update: I corrected all links.

Alfred noted in a post today Computer Science and Data Structures how many students are not studying data structures.  Maybe there is no more need for this after all all you need programmers and developers to do in business is wire up all the different components.  Kind of like a plumber its not as if they need to know any thing about their material they just make connections from one fixture to the next.  In the end your toilet gets water and expels water to the sewer.  So why would we need to teach students this basic computer science idiom.  Now they just open C# or VB and drag some buttons on a form drag a data table onto the form.  Heavens any Neanderthal can do it.  I am not sure how you tell the educated from then sheep.  Though I enjoy my foray into managed code and the joy that is DotNet.  I know my roots from Fortran to C.  I don't think a computer science degree makes the developer but does your business what some one who plays a developer on TV?

Reflector 5 still doesn't seem quite right.

good by old friend....

From Irena Kennedy:

 

SQL Server Enterprise Edition customers, and I quote, “only need to purchase one license per physical processor regardless of the number of virtually deployed instances. “

In other words, “when a customer licenses all of the processors in a server, they can run an unlimited numbers of SQL Server instances on an unlimited number of virtual operating system environments, at no additional licensing cost. “

This is going to be an important step in fostering the virtualization software.

I heard if first from Lutz

Reflector 5.0

the Add-ins are now hosted over at CodePlex.

Chris and Scott also mentioned this today check out Scott's blog to see the neat features but be careful I moved to version 5 and none of my add-ins work.  I am going to try to clean out my addin folder and start from scratch.  I don't think you want to use Reflectors check for update.  Download it and run 4.2 and 5.0 side by side make sure all your addins work first.

4.6 billion dollars evedently.

Reuters reports Sirius plans to buy XM in $4.6 billion stock deal.  Its so nice to say I called that one.

Check out Stefan Krueger's article 7 Reasons Why your Installations May Fail on Windows Vista (And How You Can Fix Them) over on Macrovision's website.