Blogging is difficult when you are hitting the grindstone around 19 hours a day! With commute times, day job, night job, and family, blogging just has lost out lately. Especially considering I’ve got two software projects still in the batter phase!

One of the things that have caught my eye lately is the EU’s fine on Microsoft. I’ve blogged about that before and I firmly believe Microsoft should leave Europe alone. I know that is a difficult move, but they are picking on more and more international companies, primarily American, and they need a swift kick across the brain to get them to get real. The EU stinks, pure and simple IMHO.

Also on one of my front burners is Visual Studio 2008. I love this new release and hope to switch over all my projects during the next few months. Don’t know if that is realistic as the BlackBerry plugins are so far for VS2005 only. In addition to VS2008, I also went for Expression Studio. The studio part makes me wonder as its four separate products that all are simular. I’ve only installed Blend so far (toying around with Silverlight). A studio to me is one place where you can do it all, like VS. But, I can work with it!

Silverlight is just so cool. I’m just not sure for my companies to roll out SilverLight pages yet. Sure, some smattering of it here and there as we have a large *nix user base that can’t use it yet. Of course, we also don’t have Flash anywhere so maybe, its just not for us.