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Christophe Lauer asked me more details about the web services access for any Unix application using WSFU 3.5.

I still can't find any other info than the one published by MS Pass.

Many times in 2003 we heard about X# the next generation language combining XML and OOP.

We heard also that Microsoft abandoned the project. A internal video showing a presentation of X# has been released on a weblog and promptly the blogger was asked by MS to delete it.
Now Microsoft Watch come with some news about Xen a new language MS Research works on.
Reading the news (see below) it's looks for me that XEN is a perfect match with X#.

So what's up with Microsoft ? After all maybe it's just another project but the idea of combining XML, OOP and relational database model is very interesting.

IMHO, it must be a serious project regarding the number of documents you can find on Xen, mostly university articles. Just click on this Google link and you can see that the number of documents is quite impressive.

So vapor language or not ? Maybe just a nother C# Api ?

This comment to my moan about this is VERY cool:

We have now a good bunch of aggregators to monitor our favourites feeds.

But what's about websites. I tested this afternoon an excellent shareware call Website Watcher.

And it does exactly what it say on the tin.
You can bookmark all your websites urls, news sites, blogs, etc... You click the update button one time.
After that you can specify an autowatch, sort of update timer, and this tool will monitor for you any changes in the fifferent sites you have bookmarked.

Cool! And I like the highlight feature they include in the software to show you in yellow background on the page where the changes happened.

If I continue like that, I am going to ask to my wife a budget for buying sharewares.

OK it's not .Net but just a bit of blues to see all this old machines on the web.

Fun also to see that you can still find bits and parts for almost any kind of computer ancestor.

I got the blues to see this picture. Surely a collector now. It was my first attemopt at computing.

Remember the Kim ;-)

For nostalgic only Windows 1.03 installation pictures.

I forgot that you need 10 floppies. Ah the good ol' 5" 1/4 !

The Longhorn developer previews seminars to be held in Europe coming months will be based on the PDC build 4051.

For the folks blogging in weblogs.asp.net (surely the same for all .Text bloggers), now it's working well with Blogjet.

I post this using this tool, and it's really good.

I still like using the .Text web editor, but this is cool.

To have this working, in the config screen in Blogjet you must chose: