I am unsure if this is old and has been around already, but I recently received it via email. In either case I thought it was amusing.

How to handle office conflicts.

Really funny cartoon for anyone following the whole Kiko sale.

http://jkanstyle.com/2006/08/29/e-true-hollywood-story-kiko/

Ok I know that was a crazy title but you'll get it if you read this great post.

http://wesnerm.blogs.com/net_undocumented/2006/08/powers_of_ten.html

I especially like the factor of 10 history and the original video is well simple remarkable.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrUQboKx_KE

For giggles the Simpson one is neat.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCfDRvDWid0

So I am sure all the Microsoft watchers are all over this one. Well, what the heck! Windows Live Writer seems like a neat program so far and it beats using any of those html controls, no matter how much javascript they use.

Here is the home page: http://windowslivewriter.spaces.live.com/

Download: Download Writer!

PS. This was my first post using it.

So everyone thinks concurrency will be super important in the years to come. And who would disagree? I recently found this link on the MS Research page. Of course everyone's heard about C Omega, since it was the prototype for the implementation of generics, but did you know about the concurrency lib?

Joins - A Concurrency Library

Comega promised C# programmers a more pleasant world of concurrent programming. Comega had a simple, declarative, and powerful model of concurrency—Join Patterns—applicable both to multithreaded applications and to the orchestration of asynchronous, event-based distributed applications. By exploiting Generics in the Common Language Runtime, we can provide join patterns as a library rather than as a language feature. Offering a library has advantages: The library is language neutral, supporting C#, Visual Basic, and other languages; and the library's join patterns are dynamic, supporting solutions difficult to express with the static join patterns of Comega. The Joins library is efficient and has a simple interface that makes it easy to translate Comega programs to C#. The installer includes a tutorial, documentation, samples, and demos.

Wow! Even if you're not into music, you have to appreciate this video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjA5faZF1A8&feature=Favorites&page=1&t=t&f=b

http://www.windwardreports.com/film.htm

Luckily at BNY (Bank of New York), we use rubber bands and hacky sacks instead of beach balls. And the most offending pranks are t'ping each other's white boards.

Enjoy!

So I came across this site (http://www.infoq.com/) recently. It has lots of industry news, but more importantly has a free eBook "Visual Studio Tips and Tricks" http://www.infoq.com/minibooks/vsnettt. You have to sign up to download, so spam might be a small price to pay

I pride myself in knowing lots of VS shortcuts and the like, but I have to admit I have already picked up quite a few new ones.

Probably good advice for anyone starting out.

http://samizdat.mines.edu/howto/HowToBeAProgrammer.html#id2791515