At my previous job, I got to wrestle with deploying MSDE as part of a shrink-wrap application. Let's just say that it was not fun :) SQL Server Express looks like it may take away those deployment nightmares. Yay!

This is just a little update to an earlier post on Outlook and .Net The method signature should be changed to:

public static void Release(params object[] comObjects)

That way you don't have to create an array of your COM objects, just list them separated by commas. Like so:

ComUtils.Release(outlookMailItem, outlookNameSpace, outlookApplication);

Hope that helps someone out there!

Update: I went ahead and turned this code into an article.

Has anyone else noticed that the headlines at the bottom of the MSN Messenger window haven't changed for about 2.5 weeks? What's the deal?

I started my new job today. Seems like it is going to be pretty interesting. I'm looking forward to getting up to speed on all of their software so I can actually do something useful!

My friend Wade has made a few changes in his life recently. He started blogging, moved his family to Washington and started a new job at Microsoft! Congratulations Wade!

Daniel Miessler tells us, “Why You Should Dump Internet Explorer”. Maybe Microsoft should dump IE too and just ship Mozilla instead. It would be great. It would make all the MS bashers' heads explode.

I took the quiz and...

Which OS are You?

So, I got the router hooked up and it is working well so far. Someone pointed out that there is a security related bug so I have flashed it with the beta firmware available from Linksys. I have no real way to measure this, but websites seem to come up faster with this router than the old one.

I'm looking forward to hacking this thing :)

I picked up a Linksys WRT54G wireless router today. Hopefully it won't suffer from the problems of my old Linksys BEFSR41 v2! Haven't installed it or even taken out of the box yet, so I'll post about it later.

Finally, someone got to play with one of these things! I will be very interested to see how it does. $499 isn't too bad of a price, hopefully the carriers will offer some discounts or rebates too.