Well, IE7 is starting to grow on me. I am using it more and more over my previous browser favorite Maxthon. The one thing that I still long for that Maxthon has is that you can have Maxthon open all new windows as tabs.

For example, you are browsing a site that has a link to another web site that has _blank as the link target. The default behavior of browsers, including IE7, is to open that link in a brand new browser window. Maxthon, however, lets you set an option to have all browser windows open as new tabs. I wish IE 7 would let you do the same thing, but as far as I can, it doesn't.

If you have tabs, one of the big advantages would seem to be that you dont need all of these different browser windows. IE7 strictly interprets the _blank setting and doesnt seem to care if the user doesnt like that behavior.

Oh yeah, I still don't like that I can't double click a tab to close it!!!

Service Pack 1 for Visual Studio 2003 is available for download. Of course, wouldn't you rather be using this.

This is old but it still suprises me the number of folks that have not heard about WPF/E. Check it out - very cool

A good article on MSDN that provides a high-level look at some of the security options in WCF. Good place to get your feet wet when trying to understand WCF security options.

Just a blurb on my part to say how cool I think Code Project is. I subscribe to the new .NET articles feed and lately there has been some real cool stuff coming out. If you haven't checked it out, do so. Even if you don't see the exact piece of code or techniques you are looking for, you will undoubtably learn some new things.

Informative MSDN article that is worth reading. This sentence from the article sums up why you should read it - "Many articles focus on how to make concurrency safe for your code, but they don't deal with how to get concurrency into your code in the first place."

Finally rented V for Vendetta this weekend. Good flick, I give it four out of five starts. It was a very pleasent suprise. Had to get past a little bit of the anti-American rhetoric but its only makes a couple of brief appearances, and not all that big of deal overall. If you haven't seen it, pick it up when you get a chance.

Javier has updated his Ligthbox.NET control. Very cool stuff so grab the update and have fun.

SlickThought has been upgraded to .NET. The personalized feeds and user logons got dumped during the migration. Sorry - but I didn't feel like moving that information over since it was only be used a little bit.

A good resource on coding standards and other development related things. Worth a read if you either need standards or want to see if your current ones could be improved.