I have used the log parser from Microsoft in the past and always been disappointed with the level of support from Microsoft for it but today I found a cool site that has some gems The Unofficial Log Parser Support Site.

As I sit a far too early meeting at a Microsoft in Irvine office listening to a Patters And Practices talk about the Enterprise Development Reference Architecture I realized that Microsoft may have learned what chaos they have wrought to the world.

I am one of Microsoft's biggest supporters, my home and lively hood is directly linked to Microsoft's success (as well as a large part of my retirement) but they have made it so easy for hack/cowboy developers that there technology gets blamed for all the worlds ills.

The good news is that with the other PAG projects and now this EDRA Microsoft is at-least trying to make the hack/cowboy developers aware of some bigger issues. What they missed is that they have tried to solve the uber problem at the “Enterprise” level. Well no one is going to implement a truly “Enterprise” solution with there technology until they have some success at the work-group and then the department level so they need to address this space first.

They also need to show how there upcoming tool set (Visual Studio 2005) will help with any implementation. But apparently they have not started to even port the current EDRA to that environment. By the way if you have not looked at VS 2005 (aka Widbey) you need to it rocks!

And yes you can look forward to a disclaimer coming to this blog soon as I know I could catch some crap for this type of post.

Now playing: dj GT - Voices Of Winter 2003 (Streaming form D I G I T A L L Y - I M P O R T E D - Vocal Trance - a fusion of trance, dance, and chilling vocals together!)

Google released there desktop search tool a little while ago and guess who is now on there heals

I love to see Microsoft getting pushed but at the same time I don’t think it is worth it to them to fallow a recognize market leader.

 Good luck MS.

Find anything, anywhere fast with MSN Toolbar Suite Beta

A buddy at work send me this great link to a new site at Google that will as you type give you suggestions as on other searches that have been done.

This is cool! Check it out!

Google

DiFolders Software has released beta 1.2 of Blogjet which is what I use to blog. There are quite a few nice new feature and has been quite stable so far.

One new feature is that it dose image resizing so here is a test of that.

Edit: Cool looks like it works like a champ! Look for more photos here soon.

I have been working on a new hobby project, it is a direct ripoff of a application that I used when I was working with Microsoft. It was called Richcopy and wow is all I can say! The big feature of it was that it would do multi threaded copying of files which helped speedup copying from disk to disk as doing a normal file copy as a lot of time is spend on the transport mechanism and not on disk IO. I will do some testing comparing doing copy one at a time vs multi threaded but from experience it dose save a bunch of time.

A buddy of mine has offered to help with the look of the application as I am a horrible UI designer but as of yet all I have gotten is help with the name. Originally I called this project Richer Copy but he talked me out of that and he came up with StreamMachine… I am not so sure I like it as I think names should reflect what the application dose or is about but what do I know.

At any rate if you are willing to give StreamMachine a try in a early alpha let me know and I will email you a copy if not check back here for a beta release soon.

I am using this as the component to update the new StreamMachine project I am working on.

.NET Application Updater Component

Some cool free tools for your computer.

The 46 Best-ever Freeware Utilities

99% of my family computer support questions are now related to Spyware! There is no 100% fix but I have found a good resource for removing bad things from you computer. The site is TomCoyote.com I have yet to clean system with the advice and tools there but I am sure I will next time I need to.