I’ve been tremendously busy the last few days, burning the candle at both ends. Last night was about 5 hours sleep. Not good. Perhaps I’m getting sick. Last week I got quite a short haircut and I’ve been noticably colder since then. It must be effecting the amount of heat I’m losing through my head.

I continue to use Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2. It’s really growing on me. One thing I like is the refactoring capabilities. You can change the name of a form for example and it’ll automatically update all references in the solution to keep things in sync. It did miss a couple of places but I was able to update those manually. The other noteworthy thing is the configuration features: Web services are now aliased through the app.config so if they change when you deploy (as often happens) you don’t need to recompile. Things like the database connection string are automatically added to the config file when you create a data source. Most of the things are not so much stand-out features but really subtle stuff that if you think about it should have been there from v2003 but never made it.

Still reading the DaVinci Code. Whatever about the story (quite cliche at this point), Dan Brown’s storytelling and overall writing quality I have to say is very lacking. Every paragraph is about 1 page long. It reads like something a teenager would write, not like a novel. Compared to Thomas Harris, Stephen King, Ray Bradbury or even Isaac Asimov ( yes I’m mixing genre’s here) he just doesn’t cut the mustard.

Last night I watched Suspect Zero, not as bad as Saw and not as good as Seven. That’s all I have to say about that.

This was funny: Arnold Schwarzenegger (or at least an impersonator) has upset women over his plan to destroy the moon. “Yah!, the moon is useless, I will pass a bill to get rid of it”. I guess folks can’t tell satire from sincerity or just don’t have a sense of humour.

Today is National Teacher Day, so wherever you are Mr. Burns, thanks for giving me those special sums when I got bored in math class.