UK loser slams Eurovision 'farce'.  Eurovision disharmony breaks out with claims that biased voting is worse than ever as James Fox is placed 16th. [via BBC News | UK | UK Edition]

But might it not be an accurate presentation of public opinion within the 'EU' area and since we used to do better than we do now, that their opinion of 'us' has gone downhill somewhat? Personally I was rather hoping we'd get "nul point" again, never mind.

Delpart.exe tool removes NTFS partitions.  You can get it here: ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/winnt/winnt-public/reskit/nt31/i386/ (RESKIT.EXE) [via Lockergnome’s Tech News Watch]

Google Groups 2 (now in beta).  It's a busy week in Googleland. Here's the latest: The New Google Groups. Same great Usenet-searching ability (if anyone still does that -- I dunno), but now with the ability to create your own groups (i.e., mailing lists/web discussion forums). Yowzers.  [via evhead]

Create your own groups!?

Longhorn, the next major OS release, is now targeted for 2007.  [via InfoWorld: Microsoft unveils final Longhorn road map: May 12, 2004: By Ephraim Schwartz : APPLICATION_DEVELOPMENT : APPLICATIONS : WEB_SERVICES]

Don't take out another mortgage on it.

WTL is now available as an Open Source project on SourceForge.net. WTL is now part of the Microsoft Shared Code initiative that enables the community to contribute to the project.

You can find the project at http://sourceforge.net/projects/wtl. [via Yahoo group on WTL]

Hot on the heels of Wix comes WTL - that WTL is Open Source should be very interesting. How big will the WTL community be, after all it will be full of what Scoble would call luddites - they (we) haven't joined the .NET bandwagon.

Although the company says that some of these changes will cause problems with around one in 10 existing applications [via Microsoft readies XP SP2 giveaway - ZDNet UK News]

Gulp, 1 in 10!

Newspapers had "spun" the inquiry evidence according to their view of the Iraq war but anybody fairly looking at the documents would conclude the government had come out "pretty well", he claimed.

 [via BBC NEWS | Politics | Campbell blames media for 'spin']

Nope, anyone who had read the documents, watched the evidence being given - oh never mind, what is the point.

The ASP.NET Version Switcher is a little utility that can be used to quickly switch the .NET Framework version that the ASPX pages are compiled against. This is helpful for developers who often have to test their web applications for compatibility with different version of the .NET Framework [via Microsoft WebBlogs]

The Regulator. ... . The Regulator also has this and so much more. I especially like that Regulator is integrated into regexlib.com. Give The Regulator a try and you can leave even more people dazed and confuzed with complex regular expressions that only you understand. Isn't that half the fun of regular expressions?!? :)  [via Microsoft WebBlogs]

You can grab the new book online from the Microsoft Download Center. Oh, and for Pete Cole's benefit, the SDK documentation is here! [via Tim Sneath, New Features in Windows XP Service Pack 2: Again!]

Updated docs, but no bits - I'll keep asking (Oh, and the SDK documentation link is not not a link to a nice relevant section in the SDK saying 'ah, dear reader, for your convenience and delectation, a summary of the new apis etc etc in XP SP2 is thus: ...., its just a link to the front page of the SDK on MSDN with a Whats New link that very noticably does not list what is new in IE, the definitive list still seems to be here, though that misses the changes in IOleCommandTarget).

I may be beginning to annoy people at MS, for which my apologies - just man trying to do job here.