MSMQ and MSMQT

Darren Jefford explains what MSMQT is, and why it's not happy to coexist with MSMQ.

MOBA

The Museum Of Bad Art (MOBA).

Map of Springfield

...in ludicrous detail. May be Slashdotted by now, so wait a while.

Make Acrobat Reader start up faster

Get Acrobat Reader to open up faster – Go to your Acrobat\Reader folder and take everything from the "plug_ins" folder and move it into "Optional" except the following: Search.api, Search5.api, IA32.api, EWH32.api, EScript.api. Printing and search will still work, and it will load 75% faster.

Cut and pasted from here, which has oodles of handy tips like that.

A Thousand Things You Can't Say in China

The words you never see in Chinese cyberspace, courtesy of Slashdot.

Uninstall non-present devices

Cool trick for cleaning up your installed devices.

Bye-Bye Bandwidth

Visual Studio 2005 Beta 1 Refresh with Visual Studio 2005 Team System was just released to MSDN. It runs to 3GB, so I still have 12 hours of downloading to go - it's almost like being back on a dial-up line.