This day has been a long time coming but I want to congratulate the team at Microsoft for delivering the first version of ASP.NET Core! I’m very excited to start working with the bits on real projects.

I buy a lot of music. I am not a hoarder like some, but I have 100GB’ish of MP3s. I don’t go around and ‘borrow’ friends collections just to up my count. What I do is buy music…just not at brick and mortar stores.

Url: https://content.visitmix.com/2009/Sessions/

I usually don't post many videos, but this one had me on the floor...

After seeing Scott Hanselman's experience with Safari, I thought I'd share mine:

Url: http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article...

Its official, once I installed iTunes 7.x (which I am uninstalling) it installs an addin into Outlook! I can't find any reason for this. I haven't determine exactly why it installs it and what it does (I disabled it). This is to go through a nasty bundling of stuff with iTunes (anyone understand why Apple gets away with this but Microsoft gets critisized for it?).  When I install iTunes I get:

I am installing iTunes 7.0.1 because they still have the best selection of music (though admittedly, I burn them to CD and immediately rip everything in MP3 to strip them of DRM).  When I installed it today, I got this curious complaint from the installer:

Url: http://flickr.com/photos/timtastic/224502119/

Url: http://www.bestweekever.tv/2006/07/07/bwe-mac-ads/

Url: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3609953...

I installed the new version of iTunes recently and its amazing how many running services and background tasks Apple is installing:

Url: http://applematters.com/index.php/section/comme...

Url: http://news.com.com/Apple+to+ditch+IBM%2C+switc...

Url: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7613523/site/newsweek/

Url: http://www.microsoftmonitor.com/archives/007717...

Url: http://developer.apple.com/macosx/tiger/spotlig...

Url: http://www.apple.com/iwork/

Url: http://www.apple.com