I don't know what happened, but suddenly Feedster rocks. It turned up 76 references to the Applied XML Developer's Conference in Google speeds. Plus, the Understanding Your Search section is just cool (although I don't really need to see it on every page of results : ).
Craig [1] (via Brad) found Alvio, a really cool place to order computers online. My favorite is the page that lets me configure a barebones P4 system from scratch [2] and then they assembly it, test it and guarantee it for a year.
The thing that I like most about Dell is how easy it is to configure computers online. To be able to configure one from the ground up w/o any OSes et al is *way* cool.
[1] http://staff.develop.com/candera/weblog2/permalink.aspx/9090a88d-dd58-4310-bb33-85cdc0b121b6
[2] http://www.alvio.com/smoreinfo.asp?iid=941
Mike Sax says exactly what I was thinking. After having high hopes for FeedDemon [1], I *much* prefer SharpReader. Luke hit it out of the park on his first try and nobody's yet come close.
[1] http://www.bradsoft.com/feeddemon
Besides the cool scenarios BillG mentions that that Longhorn will enable, I like his answer to USA Today asking how long it will be before Longhorn is available:
"Years. At this time we're doing the prototyping — feasibility studies, performance studies. We don't have a date because what we have is a technological breakthrough that we have to really make sure we refine and get right. Then we'll get to the point where we'll set up an engineering schedule."
I really like how BillG answers questions in general and this USA today interview covers lots of interesting ground, including BillG's take on spam, boring companies, Longhorn & Linux. Enjoy.
Aurigma has posted the beta for a COM to .NET wrapper generation tool that doesn't require the COM server to be registered, which is nice for hosted scenarios. It also generates the wrapper code for you to see and edit for your own purposes. Interesting.
