Finally, I've finished my exams for this period, now all I have to do is get up to date with a couple of weeks of blog entries.

The dutch devdays are tomorrow, I can only encourage everybody to go, since Clemens will do his best Don Box impersonation, and you don't want to miss any of the new features in Whidbey or Longhorn.

Allthough I doubt Rory has a new haircut, I secured the Google searchresults.

Speaking of RSS for charity, Rory claimed his first victim and forces this girl to get some education.

Please, think before you vote.

Too bad they're $249,-, which makes them a bit expensive for only 4 gb of drivespace, compared to the 15gb version (but those are a lot bigger). When you compare them to other players in the same price range using Flash memory (Rio Chiba), they become a lot more competitive.

mini iPod and iPod specs compared.

Arstechnica has an indepth review of servicepack 2 for Windows XP, due out this summer. They seem to like it, I know I do .

And according to CRN the first Office 2003 servicepack is scheduled for release in May.

I think this is a great film and cannot understand, why this hasn't been released here, in the Netherlands.

Read more about Lost in Translation at imdb. Better yet, read the review at CHUD.

Although I hate new years resolutions, I'm gonna try and keep this one; blog more regularly (after I'm done with my exams, around January 23th).

Pathping.exe

Usage: pathping [-g host-list] [-h maximum_hops] [-i address] [-n]
                [-p period] [-q num_queries] [-w timeout]
                [-4] [-6] target_name

Options:
    -g host-list     Loose source route along host-list.
    -h maximum_hops  Maximum number of hops to search for target.
    -i address       Use the specified source address.
    -n               Do not resolve addresses to hostnames.
    -p period        Wait period milliseconds between pings.
    -q num_queries   Number of queries per hop.
    -w timeout       Wait timeout milliseconds for each reply.
    -4               Force using IPv4.
    -6               Force using IPv6.

Currently only the English version is available, but other versions should appear soon. Biggest improvement would be support for Windows 2003 server, Exchange 2003 and Office 2003; combined with SBS 2003, CRM seems a very powerfull and affordable solution.

MSDN subscriber downloads

EricGu has an interesting post about method overloading and type-conversions, highly recommended.