If you are a Windows developer, and you write a program that isn’t a true Windows administration tool that will ONLY RUN under an admin account, then you suck. Granted I’m saying that I suck, because I have written programs like this. Of course the only difference is that what I wrote were little utilities that I use day-to-day….not commercial software that people have to buy, or buy a service and then have to use your program. Who does this you ask? Quicken sucks. But you can hack it, and I still use it. I just signed up with audible. It looks like their download manager is the same way. Just great! Just freaking wonderful. I hate running as an administrator.

So it’s looking like at the end of September or early October we’ll be getting a new roommate.

Check out NASA’s World Wind application. Get a nice map of the world that allows you to zoom into your favorite places. It looks like it’s written at least partly in .NET. I know the system requirements are the .NET framework, and the latest version of DirectX (which allows for managed code to access the goodness that is DirectX)

Suddenly my pansy ass paper shredder that has trouble dealing with a staple looks even punier. Check out this industrial strength shredder.

I started playing the Crimson Room tonight. Made it quite a ways through before I had to go look up some help. What the hell? I followed the exact same steps as the walk thru that I found. When I go to the web site on the piece of paper though, I get a set of numbers and they don’t unlock the safe…… Damn’t. These games shouldn’t be played at one in the morning.

Open source projects in C#. via mike.

We took a long weekend to Seaside recently. Posted some new pictures up on Flickr. No more photosets though. Guess I’ll have to cough up the $40 for a full membership.