Unlike Mike Gunderloy who “gets up early so you don’t have to”, I get up early so I can play chauffeur…
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Scott Hanselman has a cool little application interfacing to the Microsoft FingerPrint Reader…Not to be paranoid, but fingerprint readers as mass market items? Is big brother looming?

Cory Foy points out that Microsoft is looking for a .NET designer in Charlotte, NC. That’s in my backyard!

I admire Scott Bellware’s prose.  This gem came from his article on choosing the Entity Framework:

It’s an audience that has toiled under the idiocratic, dumbing-down forces of overly-declarative visual development styles for long enough to have been intellectually sterilized.  Until the move to a better balance between imperative and declarative styles has come to fruition in the Microsoft developer community, endless hoards of the programming undead will roam to corridors of corporate IT development shops searching for yet another hit on the old RAD crack pipe

Brian Livingston points out that the new Activation feature of Vista can be defeated indefinitely and was put in to help big customers manage their installations.  Talk about shooting yourself in the foot! (Via Edgar G Nilges who points out the point of activation is to hinder home users, not organized pirates)

Design & Development 

Scott Bellware reminds use that model-driven does not mean diagram-driven.

Michael has a very interesting article about “Hot Fix” and how they disrupt the normal flow of development.  As someone interested in improving the development process (and being involved in hot fixing), this has been one of the annoyances.  How to have a good process for hit fixes.