Think of it a training for SQL relationships editting

Planarity

Let the fight begin.

Computerworld Article: "Microsoft takes on Google with Virtual Earth
Web service and international versions on the way

...

Through a client application called Microsoft Location Finder that can be downloaded when a user clicks a "Find Me" icon in Virtual Earth, Microsoft accesses the MAC (media access control) addresses of wireless access points that a user's device can reach, whether or not the user is logged in to any of them, he says.

Microsoft has worked with third parties to assemble a database of router MAC addresses and the latitude and longitude of those access points. Location Finder finds the access points in the database and then triangulates the location of the user's device based on the signal strength of those access points, Law says."

Yes I am doing Access stuff ATM

The Access Web: "The Ten Commandments of Access"

At a loss for words

Download details: Access 2003 Add-in: Source Code Control: "This download contains the Access 2003 source code control add-in for communicating between both Microsoft Office Access 2003 Service Pack (SP) 1 and a source code control application (like Visual Source Safe 6.0). "

1) Why is this not offered in the original install?
2) Why have I not heard of this before?
3) Just on time for team systems to break it ;)

*UPDATE*
Don't bother.
I could not get it to work.
If you can let me know... all I get is am menu bar that never activates.
vapourware strikes again :(

Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003

Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003 Resource Kit

Wanna Game?

Windows XP Game Advisor - Home: "Welcome to the New Game Advisor!"

Savage Chickens

Savage Chickens: Chicken Cartoons on Sticky Notes by Doug Savage: "One of a Kind "

Google Earth

Boogle Earth Versions:

Microsoft CRM skips V 2.0

Business Intelligence Pipeline :
"Microsoft Preps Next-Gen CRM

What had been called Microsoft CRM 2.0 and then CRM 2005 will officially be dubbed Microsoft CRM 3.0, said Brad Wilson, general manager for Microsoft CRM. The product is still set to be released to manufacturing in the fourth quarter, he said. "

SQL 2005 & Regular Expressions

SQL Server 2005: CLR Integration : Working with Regular Expressions:
"The following C# code can be used as a function in your queries (once it is deployed to your database) to perform pattern matching:"

Where I live

Google Maps

Fresh Geek Perspective

You are NOT inadequate.: "You rock"

Why is a dog asking me questions?

Secret Geek: "Award for the Silliest User Interface: Windows Search"

This MIGHT be good

Computerworld - Microsoft to ship Longhorn with RSS: "Microsoft on Friday announced its intention to fully support the RSS web publishing standard in its next generation version of Windows, codenamed Longhorn, along with plans to help application developers more easily create RSS-enabled applications for Windows."

Chris Auld, MSDN Regional Director.....

Syringe.Net.Nz - MSDN Regional Director.....: "Someone, well Microsoft, in their infinite wisdom (or generosity) has decided to let me wear a Regional Director hat for a period. Which is all really rather cool."

Painting with Acrylic

Microsoft offers beta of Adobe rival
"Microsoft has released a test version of a new professional graphics tool code-named Acrylic.

Microsoft describes the software--currently available as a 77MB free download--as bringing together pixel-based painting and vector graphics features. These capabilities will put the product squarely in the market currently dominated by software maker Adobe Systems with its pixel-focused Photoshop and vector-driven Illustrator products. "

Microsoft Acrylic Technology Preview - Home: "About Acrylic
'Acrylic' is the codename for an innovative illustration, painting and graphics tool that provides exciting creative capabilities for designers working in print, web, video, and interactive media."

Interesting articles on consequences of Bad Data

The Rising Threat from Bad Data: "Steven Calderon had a clean record, a clean conscience and no reason to think that his new employer's routine background check would cause any problem at all. Then the sheriff showed up at the office and took him to jail on warrants for child molestation and rape.
A nightmare? Sure, but Calderon figured it was a mistake that could be cleared up pretty quickly. He'd reported the theft of his Social Security number and birth certificate in 1993, so it was obvious that the bad guy was whoever had stolen Calderon's identity."

The only time Bill Gates will appear between Britney Spears & Jennifer Lopez

Computerworld - Britney Spears ranked top virus celebrity:
"Panda's top ten celebrity virus rankings are as follows:

1 Britney Spears
2 Bill Gates
3 Jennifer Lopez
4 Shakira
5 Osama Bin Laden
6 Michael Jackson
7 Bill Clinton
8 Anna Kournikova
9 Paris Hilton
10 Pamela Anderson
"

all known for sex appeal or criminal activity... so again, what is Bill doing there?

MS Office 12 - XML & ZIP

Microsoft Makes XML the File Format for the Next Version of Microsoft Office: :
Q&A: Senior Vice President Steven Sinofsky explains how making XML the default file format is likely to help customers

"A key benefit of the new format is substantially smaller file sizes -- up to 75-percent smaller than comparable Office 2003 files. This is one of the advantages we get out of using the combination of XML and ZIP technologies for storing our files. Since XML is a text based format which compresses very well, and the ZIP container supports compressing the contents, we are able to achieve these significant reductions in file size."

More than one monitor? GET THIS

Oscar's Multi-Monitor taskBar: "MultiMon Task bar
The real multi-monitor support in Windows puts task-bar only in the primary monitor. The extended monitors are plain 'takbarless'. There is no other way to add another taskbar to the extended monitor.
So I created my MultiMon taskbar. A secondary taskbar which will be put on extended monitor."

Error Handling in SQL Server - Good lookng articles

Error Handling in SQL Server - a Background

Implementing Error Handling with Stored Procedures

SpeedFan 4.24 - anyone use this?

SpeedFan - Access temperature sensor in your computer: "If you are looking for a tool that can change your computer's fan speeds, that can read your hard disk temperature and S.M.A.R.T. status, that can read temperatures, voltages and fan speeds and much more, then you came to the right place. SpeedFan works fine with Windows 9x, ME, NT, 2000, 2003 and Windows XP. And this is absolutely for free :-) "

MDAC R.I.P.

DataWorks WebLog : The end of the MDAC Redistributable [Brad Rhodes]: "MDAC 2.8 sp1 will be our last official redist of MDAC ...."

Common CRM Issues

Microsoft CRM UK Reseller:

"The Sales for Outlook client probably counts for a lot of the support issues our helpdesk receives. Problems fall into the following categories:
Installation
Missing toolbar
Sync problems
Promoting Emails
CRM Buttons do not work"

Google enterprise desktop search tool

Computerworld - Google releases enterprise desktop search tool:
"Free tool is available for download now on desktop.google.com/enterprise."