Anyone out there using rsync to talk to Akamai? Nope? Thought not.

• SQL Prompt version 3 - New version of Red Gate's intellisense for SQL Server is out now, with a $195 price tag. 14-day trial is here.
• Task Manager Extension 2.0 - Add some extra capabilities directly to Windows Task Manager.
• Aqua Data Studio 6.0 - New version of this cross-platform cross-database query and administration tool. Trial download here, pricing from $399.

• Ergopod 500 - Workstation for reclining computer use. I'm waiting for the bathtub model myself. 

• A VS SP1 Bug Fix List Posted - Looks like the answer is "don't hold your breath for a full fixlist." A pity, after all the transparency in the Developer Division lately. Oren Eini has a few choice words to say about this too.
• Introduction to Malbolge - A nasty evil rotten computer language. (via Harry Pierson, and welcome to the link blogging world)
• Launching a Remote Desktop session from a hyperlink - Not sure it's worth going through someone else's web service to do this, but it might earn you brownie points in a presentation some time.

• Windows Vista Expected to Generate $2 Billion in New Revenue for Massachusetts IT Industry in 2007 - Microsoft has put out a whole series of these press releases lately, on a state-by-state basis (though I'm wondering if they're going to bother toting up the supposed ten bucks in benefits for, say, South Dakota), and I'm getting bloody well sick of them. To put any credence in these numbers you have to believe that there's some magical new bucket of money that gets spent on Vista, rather than (as I suspect is much much more likely for nearly any business), a simple redirection of existing IT budget from some other purpose. A more honest headline would be something like "Windows Vista Expected to Generate $2 Billion in New Revenue for Massachusetts IT Industry in 2007 at the Cost of $2 Billion in Lowered Spending on Other Projects." It's a zero-sum game.

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