Just trying to post from Windows Live Writer and see if it works ok with WordPress. If you can read this then it works just fine. And if you can see a picture below then it can insert it and is totally recommended

Just installed the final version of Microsoft Internet Explorer 7. The best part so far is that SPAW seems to work ok under it. Phew. This was a frequent nightmare lately: IE7 comes out and I have to write and maintain separate handlers for SPAW to work. But thanks god this is not the case.

In general it looks and feels ok. So far the most disappointing thing for me is absence of mouse gestures. By searching ieaddons.com I was able to find this plugin only and I don’t like what I see in comments.

I’m going to try using it as my default browser for some time. You can hate me all you want but I don’t like Firefox for some reason (actually the main reason is that I found out it sucks from the inside when making SPAW Gecko compatible) but I used it as my default browser for a couple of months since my beloved Maxthon showed no love for Google Notebook (or probably the other way around) and I wanted it badly at that time (not actually using it alot now)

P.S.: this post was made using IE7

We’ve been members of Microsoft Empower ISV program for couple of years and now when our membership is over we needed to buy a copy of Visual C# 2003 Standard Edition. It wasn’t a surprise that you can’t buy 2003 editions of VS .NET these days but fortunately you can downgrade 2005 editions. So we bought VS 2005 Standard Edition and called Microsoft Lithuania to get a disk kit for 2003.

First of all the call was answered by some latvian or estonian guy (I couldn’t distinguish the accent for sure) and he offered to speak in Russian or English. Kind of strange but not a problem. After I have explained the issue he said that we do have a right for downgrade but Microsoft can’t help us get the disk kit and he could only suggest that we “get it somewhere”. I wanted to ask if it’s okay to download it from bittorrent or edonkey network but you know you most likely can’t get such a “low-end” version over there. It’s always “Enterprise architect” cause you know if you steal anyway why steal sh*t?

I’m sort of lost here. Where do we get that disk kit?

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