The DreamLand Express - Charles Oppermann's Software Blog

Carlos Magalhaes has been quietly running a fine mailing list for developers working with Active Directory and related technologies.  ADSI or the .NET System.DirectoryServices libraries are covered and there is excellent response time and good discussion.

I’ve always been a bit twiddler – whether it’s doing machine code on an 8-bit RCA COSMAC microprocessor or writing 16-bit drivers for Windows 3.1 or doing Windows Server 2003 storage related development, I’ve never shied away from getting into the meat of the system.

Arik Korman, director for my buddy Bob's radio show has started a Podcasting blog.  Arik is a fascinating person, and he infuses his podcast with the same production skills that has helped make the Bob Rivers Show top-rated in the Seattle market.

Google is taking advantage of a feature of the Mozilla open-source to prefetch the top search result.  So, if you search on something, the pages referenced in the first result will be loaded in the background.

Robert Guth of the Wall Street Journal has a fascinating article on Bill Gates’ twice-yearly solo retreats, known inside the company as “Think Week”.

I submitted an article to Slashdot today and it was accepted!  Within a few hours, it collected over 200 comments.

Since I started working with the Windows Explorer shell in Windows 95, I’ve often wondered why there isn’t a “New Folder” toolbar button.

Have been moving my music collection around and noticed that nearly half of the files didn't get added to the media library when monitoring the folder, or manually scanning it.