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Here's some Bauhaus lyrics for programmers late at night:

All we ever wanted
was everything

All we ever got
was cold

Get up
Eat Jelly

Sandwich bars and barbed wire

Squash every week
into a day

...oh to be the cream!

Yeah! But I am wary of any SharePoint dependencies for showing forms in Web browsers…

Ah! I can just hear those cruel IPod lovers erroneously claming that this feature is Microsoft's answer to Apple's latest craze.

I think Mike is talking about better bandaids---even better than what the International Monetary Fund does "for" people in need. I am curious about what Vandana Shiva or Wangari Maathai thinks about these loans.

And of course this conversation is devoid of the possibility that these "poor people" were deliberately underdeveloped by powers greater than the worldly W2 employee confident about what the "third world" really is.

Poverty is not natural. Poverty happens when people are taken out of the world of nature. And it is so, so sad to assume that living in the world of nature has nothing to do with "advanced" technology. This assumption is what is actually stupid.

Surely, all or some of BizTalk functionality is in some enterprise edition of SQL Server 2005, right?

This is a major political breakthrough. It is probably a fundamental change in the MS web marketing strategy. Finally, a client-side web browser framework that promises to work on most modern browsers! The "fear" of not shackling client-side web technologies to MSIE seems conquered. Right?

I consider this an historic moment. The only negative bit is waiting for broad acceptance. When it goes pop, let's hope it won't suffer the fate of being called "AJAX" and credited to non-Microsoft entities. Let's not have LINQ become the DHTML of the OOP world.

My quip says that this video shows that VB.NET is "responding" to some of the features of Python. This video pushes Channel9 to the edge... a very rough cut... all of us developers need better speaking/presenting skills...

The ASP.NET 2.0 features make this product look great. I am curious about how the installation procedure has changed. The SharePoint "tradition" makes many (like me) actually 'fear' installing Sharepoint. I will assume that this 'imagined burden' has no basis with the new SharePoint...

This leads to the larger issue of installing/uninstalling Windows-based software. The X-Copy features of .NET applications must influence new apps like SharePoint, making a clean uninstall perfectly possible.

Sparkle, you are exciting and intuitive. See you around in a few years.