Following a very silly saga on headers/libs for XP SP2, i.e. a complete XP SP2 SDK, not just docs, it would seem that it appeared a couple of weeks after my first question as to where it was, but in the one place that I didn't look - MSDN Subscriber downloads. My sad excuse for this is that:

1. I rarely, if ever, look in Subscriber downloads 'cos I connect to the Internet with wet string and
2. the rest of the XP SP2 has been very public, why hide away the SDK bits?

A big thanks to Alex Lowe who pointed me in the right direction. Hopefully, sometime soon, the bits will be available to all - see Tony Goodhew's XP SP2 weblog for details.

The position papers for The W3C Workshop on Web Applications and Compound Documents are now available for you viewing pleasure. [via DonXML Demsak's Grok This]

Looks like an interesting read.

Rob Mensching notes that ICE33 errors can be ignored - a recent reply to the Wix Mailing list states:

"... Unfortunately, history has shown that advertising most of the COM stuff is a really bad idea. I have a blog entry queued up about all these details, plus a really gory story about constant IODs due to some authors ignoring my advice. Anyway, I now high suggest avoiding the Class/ProgId/Mime tables."

Can't wait for the queue to empty and the blog post to appear.

[Correction. This entry used to state: On his weblog he states "Office does not run ICE33... I'd call that a vote of no confidence". Incorrect attribution, a comment on his web log, but made by someone else, not Rob].

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.