I'm totally getting a kick out of VW's new ad campaign ...

here's an interesting take on presenting world-wide news...

Mike Kolitz posted some instructions on how to get Aero to run in a VM by using remote desktop to connect to the VM through our updated RDP client. This brought to mind something that people often ask me about the desktop composition system and its...

off-topic: here's a childrens toy from the UK that's just plain wierd. They have a link to a "viral ad" on their site that made me chuckle (the link, not the ad)... you'd think this would be a choking hazzard...

Eli asked about OpenGL, Direct Draw, and WPF, and how they work with Desktop composition... OpenGL can go through one of three paths in Windows Vista depending on how your computer is configured. MSOGL - this is an implementation of OpenGL 1...

"JoeW" says: Echoing the point above - does any of the shell components using DirectX provide their own API? How much of WPF is being used here? If there is an unmanaged API will it be public? MS has been mysteriously quiet about the level of...

Mike Fullerton captures the reason so elequently...

here's a couple sites that offer fonts you can download: http://www.abstractfonts.com/ http://www.dafont.com/

I just discovered shutterbook , a very rich new photo sharing site.. like flikr but in hifi...

Lots of comments after the "John Tokash" post a while back... I got a handful of requests for sample code for how to do the live window previews like we use in the updated Taskbar in Windows Vista. I'll post some samples once Beta 2 has been released...

Zillow is a fun site that lets you look at the value of different homes using the address and some nice ajax style mapping user interface...

these are pretty cool... candle-light... no candles.