Das Bomb

I cant understand it -- I was doing a blogging software evaluation, got Wordpress and Textpattern to install no bother -- just followed the steps for Joomla! and all went well, had it down to about fifteen minutes by the time I got to Textpattern and both of them look fine, but I decided to go one further and try out Das Blog, being a Dot Net sort of guy.
Sadly, this did not go at all well -- tried the simple copy option and failed dismally, so then decided to try the Web Platform Installer route -- this was a disaster -- it may have been down to my virus checker, but first I had to install WPI 1 before WPI 2 would install and had to restart my browser several times. Finally, all went well, but it really didnt inspire confidence -- I wont be recommending Das Blog to anyone, either from a technical or usability stand point -- found it very bare compared to the competion

Sample Apps and Best Practices

I kind of like the .Net Pet Shop, and the lesser known French rival PetshopDNG -- a lot of their stuff is in, uh French, cos they are French, but some of if has a translated version www.dotnetguru.org/articles/us/PetShop20/PetShop_20.pdf -- because they come with lots of explanations about design decisions and so on, which a lot of sample and best practices examples dont. It would be great if there were maybe two teams on a lot of these projects, one to write the code and a second to document the thing behind in great details

Finally used to Vista

I'm finally at home with Vista, even the whole UAC annoyance thing -- I actually turned it back on :-)
And I'm moving towards Virtual PC as a platform anyway, so when there is something unbearable or unsupported I break out the XP or Win2003 Server image -- its not perfect but it beats having half a dozen PCs.
Ironic then that the Windows 7 hype is passing me by -- it installed very obediently, about 75 minutes, practically no stupid questions and runs smoothly. But am I bovvered? Not likely.
It er, looks a lot like Vista, and there have just been too many operating systems for me to get excited. I installed AndLinux the other week, which seems very nice, but again, bought the tatty t-shirt