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I was writing earlier about the tech situation in Ireland getting not bright at the moment.

And tonight, as a pure coincidence, I just finish reading an article in the Irish Times from a journalist name Karlin Lillington.

First time that I read clearly mentioned on an Irish newspapers the weblog address of a journalist !

Her blog is really interesting, full of personal and professional comments, and it's quite an exciting experience, from a journmalistic point of view, it give some flesh and blood to a paper character.
To come back to my story, she wrote about the new adaptation of the digital media firms in Ireland.
To be sure to respect her article, I will just repeat some parts.

No it's just an Alienware Area-51 PC my son ;-)

Exist in other colors. check it out

Microsoft says in the note that when you right click a folder using Windows Explorer, the CPU usage flies up to 100% when the shortcut menu is displayed.

That means any file copy operation "may appear to stop responding", "network connection speed may significantly decrease", and streaming operations, like listening to music, can become distorted. I suppose its disappointing to see that a fix is in fact disabling (native) features but we can only hope this is solved in SP2 or a patch. Read more for the workaround.

View: Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - 819101
View: Explorer 100% utilization in Windows XP (26 April 2003)
News source: The Inquirer and neowin

It's happen to me so many times that at the end I was thinking this is normal.
Happy if this could be fixe soon.

The first production run of that new wristwatch cellphone from NTT DoCoMo, the Wristomo I-mode, sold out in 20 minutes when it went on sale in Japan on Wednesday.

[Source: Gizmodo - The Register]

NEC's new cellphone doubles as remote control for a television or VCR, it's the perfect thing for those who can't be bothered to get up and find the real remote. The N504iS has a 1.9-inch color LCD screen, a built-in digital camera, and is only available in Japan.

[Source: Gizmodo]

Roy mentioned in his last blog a list of books he has on his bookshelf.

I will certainly order som of them missing in my library.

Bu Roy add this one on the VB.Net section:

Visual Basic .Net core language Little Black book

It's an excellent reference book

I read carefully the .Net Magazine article on Yukon, thanks Randy.

If this is coming to life like that, most of the new things are for me exciting stuff.

I like:
- XML as native data storage.
- Intellisense in stored procedures with the future VS release.
That's pretty cool but I hope it could be also for T-SQL
- SQL Server Workbench
- VB and C# integration. globally it's a good idea. I am just a bit afraid about debugging.
I wonder how it will going debugging my application and the data layer !
- multiple results set on a single connection
- Varchar(max) if it's true this is a great new ! At last no more 8k limit
- Automatic notifications are a very good idea
- Recursives functions. This is excellent
- Try catch is a good combination to use with Transactions, if as I said below, it's ANSI SQL-3 standard.
- Reporting services as long as it's simple to use as in Access.

I dislike:
- XML format for big databases, how about performances ?
- Integration of .Net in SQL Server will make the product too much platform dependent.
With T-SQL it's not big deal to copy stored procedures, with few changes, to Oracle for example on Unix or Windows. What's about a stored procedure written in C#?
I have no problem to develop muy middle tier in .Net, but I like a kind of independancy with the data layer. A mismatch will not benefit Yukon.

Other features need to be seen. Is Array parameters can be a door to crosstables ?
I didn't read anything new about Cube or OLAP.

In conclusion I admit that I have more 'I like it' than 'I dislike it'.
That's not so bad at all and this new release seems promising.