I see that Google Ads have picked up on the World Cup post below and started to show adverts to ticket sites. Please don't click the links. Because of the way ticketing is done this time it is very unlikey that a ticket bought from one of these sites will give you access to the match. The site that seems to come top at the moment was also on BBC news the other night for the same reason.

...or a frown. There is a little tool that you can use to send feedback directly to the Office team called "Send a Smile" which can be downloaded here. Basically a couple of task tray icons allows you to very quickly send good or bad feedback. More details on Joe's Blog.

Oh, and here is the Go-Live license...

http://msdn.microsoft.com/winfx/downloads/products/golive/default.aspx

Both Office 2007 and Windows Vista Beta 2 have been released. If you are an MSDN subscriber then you can pick up copies from subscriber downloads. If you are not then you can get Office from http://www.microsoft.com/uk/office/preview and Vista from the Vista Customer Preview Program (coming soon but register here).

In addition, if you want to do development for Vista you will need the following (in order of install):

1. Install the BETA 2 WinFX Runtime Components from here.
2. [ONLY REQUIRED FOR VS2005] Install the Windows SDK BETA 2 from here.
3. [ONLY REQUIRED FOR VS2005] Install the VS2005 WinFX extensions (Visual Studio ‘Orcas’ May CTP) from here.
4. Install Microsoft Expression Interactive Designer May CTP (Sparkle) from here.
5. Install Microsoft Expression Graphic Designer May CTP (Acrylic) from here.
6. Install Microsoft Expression Web Designer (Quartz) CTP1 from here.
7. Install Erain’s ZAM3D from here.
8. Check out videos on the Expression Suite here.

For Office development you'll need:

1. Install the Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) June CTP from here.
2. Install the Windows SharePoint Services v3 SDK from here.
3. Install the SharePoint Server 2007 SDK from here.
4. Browse the SharePoint SDK documentation here.
5. Don't forget the new SharePoint Developer Center on MSDN.
6. Check out videos on SharePoint here (more to come later).

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1. The Groove SDK can be found here.

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For a complete list of the World Cup fixtures including stadium and TV channel they'll be shown on go to http://www.bcentral.co.uk/worldcup and click the red "download now" button. The executable will put the entire list into Outlook for you along with optional reminders.

I'm part of a crew taking part in this year's Round the Island race and we had a training day last weekend. The weather was foul on Saturday with rain and cold; on the Sunday it was too nice with sun but unfortunately no wind either. It did give me some time to take a picture or two though. Still we managed to get some sails up and practise. Next time will be for the race on Saturady 3rd June.

So I finally managed to get some sort of broadband to the house. Admitedly it's only a 1/2 meg but it will do for gaming and e-mail. I still have my fast pipe for downloads. Unfortunately I couldn't remember any of my old details to retrieve my gamer tag so I have a new one. Look me up if you know me.

I'm staying in Weybridge whilst on a Microsoft consultancy training course. This is the fantastic view that I get every morning.

We have tomatoes, chillies, peppers, courgettes, aubergine and a ton of herbs...

Back breaking work but well worth the effort.

Not very religious for Easter weekend but what the hay. The blue one is a "little devil" which befits the owner.