I read about this cool USB drive that takes your desktop with you, it is a cool item, you can read about it here, http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1361681,00.asp  , and also here http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103_2-5080056.html. The maker is Forward Soultions, http://www.fwdsolutions.info/ ,  and you can see it on there web site here,  http://www.4migo.com/ , and view a demo right here http://www.4migo.com/demo.html

Ever what to see you system perfmon info without using perfmon, well here is a free little app that will do that for you, http://www.samurize.com/ .  It dispayes it on the desktop, or over your app and you can click right though the meters to the application running. To read more about it go here, http://www.samurize.com/modules/xoopsfaq/index.php . there are scripts to display other stuff it appears but great tool for developers that need to watch something and see the app at the same time.

Found some cool stuff. There is a great toolbar/shell for Windows XP( 2000 is support but have not tried it there) called MobyDock at http://www.mobydock.com , it is free.  And then there are some great icon's at http://www.foood.net for XP and Mobydock. Also, good icons at http://glyfx.com .

Here is a link my buddy Mike sent me that is the Officially Launch Event Of Office 2003 that Bill Gates did on October 21, http://www.microsoft.com/Office/launch/billgates.mspx

Well, he is a fun site , http://www.mensa.org/ and if you want to play around and test your IQ online try the MESA Workout Online, you will find it in the menu on the site .

Ok, the fastest car runs on batteries this is way weird, http://www.dwra.net/dwrastreamliner.htm

The weather Channel and weather.com once again top my list of weather sites, http://www.weather.com/services/xmloap.html  check it out all you developers

Well today i have fun a site that could be usefully to some, http://www.kbAlertz.com that scans MS KB for new postings.  Also, found these web sites about .NET stuff
http://www.XMLforASP.net
http://aspalliance.com/
http://www.develop.com
http://www.dotnetmasters.com
http://www.computerzen.com
http://www.mcwtech.com/
http://www.ineta.org/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabindex=2&tabid=14, this is a good list of people of .NET programmers in the world.
these sites I found listed on sites about .NET but did not come up for some reason but really look like they should, http://www.adoguy.com and http://www.123aspx.com

and then this is a interesting site, http://www.microsoftregionaldirectors.com/ , I have not been able to read much of the site yet but will could be useful

It amazes me that the calendar , cards, and gift people or the world can just make up holidays and special days to get us to buy crap.  Today is National Boss Day in case you did not know that. You got it that means that today you should have picked up or sent  your boss something which includes the owner/president/ceo/cio,coo/cfo/cto/and those others at the top of the food change , managers, and supervisors. So if you are at the bottom all of those above you are a boss to you so that is a bunch of crap you should have sent or purchased something for.  So tell me this, where is the day they do that for the others , we all know the secretaries have a day, a whole week on some calendars, but i do not recall a mail room person day, a file clerk day so when are we going to see those.  Really I want ot see the Nerd Day, ie the people that make all those other poele jobs easier and if they want could really make it so that those others are not needed at all.   If  I remember the Boss gets something from us everyday , we have to do what every they tell us or they can tell us where to go, and we get something from them every day, money ( well usually unless they are scaming you and not telling you that in a fews days when I usually guy you money to pay you I am not going to )    :-)       

Death to calendar, card, gift  people unless they make a Nerds Rule The World Day.

Found this interesting read on software money making, http://software.secrets-exposed.com/?hop=tbcook.bflbfl, it is a book called Software Secrets Exposed

Looking for a simple progess/status  bar for your asp.net app, tyr this one http://www.aspnetpro.com/NewsletterArticle/2003/08/asp200308bm_l/asp200308bm_l.asp

Is is an article about creating asp.net page templates, http://www.fawcette.com/vsm/2001_12/magazine/columns/aspnet/


Saw a cool menu ssytem from www.imint.com , it has paid and some free ones.  I saw a cool free tree and butoon applets.  When look at one I found this site http://come.to/@lbers , way cool site.  From there I found a site that has a java applet tool and a flash creation tool that is free that will create and email you the falsh file and the html to make it work, http://www.anfyteam.com 
This is a cool product, http://www.demicron.se  kind of like flash but way cooler for 3-d

Wow, It is the first day of October already.  Put the big thing this year is the Do-Not-Call-List , you can read the Do-Not-Call-List Act of March ,2003 here http://www.congress.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c108:H.R.395:

Here is stuff from the FTC, http://www.ftc.gov/os/2003/01/tsrfrn.pdf
and then the FCC, http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-03-153A1.pdf
and this is good sellers/telemarketers info , http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/alerts/dncbizalrt.htm

After read lots of stuff on this, I will be surprised if they can very make any of this stick. There are loops and privacy and all kinds of public information problems. It really appears like an attempt by the FTC and US Congress to raise money.  They are going to be killing lots of trees to keep of with this in businesses.  The tree huggers should be fighting this thing. :) One thing I did read that made me laugh was that the FTC said the registry will be available on-line and a business has to access it there ( so if a DOS or a worm or the Internet is down in your area you will be screwed) and that help to get access will be available during regular business hours. Never says what that is and since all the yelling is about getting calls during dinner I would thing that the help service would be there during the peak times of the calls and when people should be access. Once again government rule and law makers are idiots and the employees of government are idiots ( I work for a state agency, I will tell you most of them are. They would never be able to get a job and keep it in the real world. They are lazy, unskilled , and lack communication skills, and we will not even talk about customer relations skills) .