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Igor Vit has posted on the Universal Thread that registration is now open for the Prague VFP DevCon. Register here. The cost is 37 Euros on MSDN Connection or 55 Euros without an MSDN Connections membership ID. Myself, Doug Hennig, and Alan Griver will be speaking. I hope to see you there!

Geneology web site Myheritage.com has a cool tool face recognition tool that allows you to upload a picture of yourself and then have it matched to pictures of celebrities and other famous people (free registration required). My matches:

• 64% Gustav Stresemann
• 61% Fred Hoyle
• 55% Elizabeth Taylor
• 51% Owen Wilson
• 50% Aleister Crowley
• 47% Daniel Radcliffe
• 45% Claude Rains
• 45% Margaret Thatcher

Who do you look like?

I'm now running IE 7.0, Beta 3. It is significantly faster than Beta 2, but it still has a problem that has always existed in IE. When you install it, it alphabetizes all items on the link bar. I've reported this to Microsoft several times. I've said it here before. LEAVE THE LINKS ALONE AND STOP REORDERING THEM!

There. I feel better now.

AOHell is floating a plan among it's top execs that it offer free access to all its services to anyone with a high speed connection. The idea is that it will drive up ad revenue. Ads or not, free will still not get me to go to any AOHell site.

Open Sores blogs and web sites have been stuffed to the gills lately regarding Microsoft's Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) and the fact that it was installed as part of automatic updates and phones home. Now it seems Apple is doing the same thing. You can read about it here. Anyone want to bet that the same Open Sores sites that were blasting Microsoft's WGA will be rather quiet on Apple doing the same thing?

About six weeks ago, I got a call from Redmond magazine, wanting to interview me about Visual Studio Team System. The article is called The 800-Pound Code Gorilla.