Not seen this elsewhere (yet), but from Autralia - MS Kills Outlook Express

Today is Left-handers' Day. Site of the Day Nothing too sinister... [The Register]

Hooray to us left-handed persons.

Web service to help you configure ClearType  [Scoble]

Interesting little thing - I think its made the text easier to read on my old fashioned CRT. (Warning, the above asks to install a required ActiveX control).

Webloggers deal Harvard blog-bores a black eye. "Who is Dave Winer?" Pay $500 and find out... [The Register]

Its a long time since I read something on The Register that made me laugh (it making me laugh being one of the reasons I started reading it), but this did:

... Imagine how tedious newspapers would be if every other story proclaimed "We use INK!!!" The writers don't care, and the readers don't care, how this message was delivered: but readers do care about quality.

Somehow I missed this, but joining the Visual Studio.NET integration program seems to have become free.

Switching Source Code Control Providers. Anyone who needs to switch between Source Code Providers can not be with OUT Harry's latest utility: SccSwitch. VSS to GotDotNet to Vault ...and so on and so on. Very handy. [ScottW's ASP.NET WebLog]

Just fixing the link here: SccSwitch

ASP.NET Server Control Licensing. Examine the licensing requirements for ASP.NET server controls and see how to create an ASP.NET control licensing implementation that can be used with versions 1.0 and 1.1 of the .NET Framework. The implementation can be extended to create custom server-side licensing schemes. [MSDN Just Published]

Using the TreeView IE Web Control. Learn how to use the TreeView Web Control to create rich hierarchical user interfaces for your Web Applications. [MSDN Just Published]

Blog Code - Come and get it.. Ah well, all of the disclaimers in the world won't help me now. The first official public download of .Text is now up and can be freely downloaded over on GotDotNet. [ScottW's ASP.NET WebLog]

Seeing as I'm off to play somewhere else for a couple of weeks, an odd time to say it but....

Zeepe 7 RC 1 is available over at zeepe.com.

This allows you to do witty things like toolbars etc that are described using XHTML tags (the zeepe: namespace), support javascript event handlers etc and are drawn by the native code so they look right on all Windows platforms.