Tobler.SoftwareArchitecture()

Several sources on the net have reported that cfd.exe is spyware or adware. The "BroadJump Client Foundation" software is automatically installed with SBC's DSL kit. I, myself, have wondered about this and was on the edge of uninstalling it when I decided to chat online with SBC support. The SBC support professional has certified to me that cfd.exe is only being used for network management purposes.

Originating from the demented mind of some bemused induhvidual, the "Page 23 Meme" has been spreading wildly. I was fascinated by memetics, when I first encountered it, so I'll participate in the experiment. However, the real meme I am spreading is the meme of memetics, itself! Oh, and I just recognized that I also seem to be heavily propagating one or more Google memes, as well. Do notice that I have not merely propagated "Page 23." I have also added some sort of content that took some sort of thought. Whenever I become conscious that I am spreading some meme, I usually try to add value.

Over on the Trivial Thoughts Weblog, Michael Kent posted some very non-trivial thoughts on refactoring. You can do worse than to follow Kent's Rule for Refactoring Code.

I lost! We lost! Who won? spammers! (I refuse to capitalize them).

Courtesy of a kbAlertz RSS feed, I just discovered this alert: "This file cannot be opened because it was created with a newer or unrecognized version of Visio" error message when you try to open a Visio drawing by using Visual Studio .NET.

Sorry, fellow .NET aficionados, but this recent advice from Microsoft is highly important: KB# 841927 - Do not use .NET Framework Class Libraries or other framework libraries in core operating system processes. It's only common sense, really, but they gave me a hammer for my birthday and now they don't want me to use it on the OS! Shucks! Durnit!

I have started to experiment with the new Microsoft Shell Beta (Monad) and was going to write a brilliant post about it but it appears that others have paved this road before me. So, I will just recommend that you check out these links:

The new, free UMlet is designed to support the UmlAsSketch concept. While not exactly "full-featured," it will let you crank out useful UML diagrams in a surprisingly short time. Only a few UML diagram types are currently supported but the next version will support more. It's pretty light-weight, too, at about 6.9 MB for the entire Java application.