OK folks, I know it's been a while.  The fact is, I've been worn out, and haven't been able to keep up with anything worth talking about, as evidenced by the big bold (2637) next to my aggregated “Unread” search folder in Outlook.  I have, however, done something sure to be my downfall, and installed Longhorn as the sole OS on my primary box.

No, I'm not completely psychotic... the XP Pro installation I had had been bogged down for a while, and needed to be repaved.  So, I took the opportunity to back my important data up, and totally wiped XP off my box.  Let me tell you, even with only 512MB of RAM and 32MB of VRAM, it runs 1000x better than it did in VPC or VMWare.  Of course, Christmas is coming, so if any of you want to send me a new video card or more RDRAM (don't ask - it makes me sad every day), don't be afraid to ask for a shipping address.  :)

So far, my DVD burning software of choice doesn't want to burn to actual disks (just images), and Microsoft Money 2004 didn't run at all.  Under Longhorn, Money reported that the installation was missing a critical file and prompted me to reinstall.  I did so, same result.  So, I tried compatibility mode... Money started, and promptly crashed.  With my wife (who handles the day-to-day budget) threatening my death if I couldn't get Money running, I pulled a Munich and installed WinXP Pro inside of VMWare.  I back up my Money file to a floppy disk, so I've got a good copy of that just in case everything goes belly-up.

Otherwise, so far so good... Whidbey seems to be behaving itself while I try to start developing Longhorn apps and tiles, and IIS “7” (more like 6.1, at least right now) seems stable, though I am having trouble running the sample ASP.Net apps out-of-the-box... the details escape me right now, more on that later.

If I don't post anything else tonight, happy Thanksgiving to everyone that celebrates, and happy JustAnotherDay to everyone that doesn't!  I'll be flying up to Newark from Raleigh on Thursday morning, wish me luck!

- G