You don't need money to be a member of the Mojo Pac

You may remember an article I put up in the blog earlier this year about a product called MojoPac. A piece of virtualisation software for taking your PC with you on an external storage device, like a PDA for example. Well now you can get a free version for free, how good is that. www.MojoPac.com

A Tiny effort can save a lot of time and Windows 2008 shows a lot of effort has been expended

The nice thing about working for a training company is that one sometimes comes across snippets of information that communicate a way of making management of techno-logical speak easier.

An example of this occurred this morning when someone cared enough to point out to someone that there is a way of reducing the amount of text you have to type in to allow someone to follow your path.

I am not sure whether the sender of the original message got the message but that is another story.

If you go to www.tinyurl.com you can enter the text that you would normally type in, in the address bar, and press a button to convert it into a smaller link that you can give to people. The site will retain the original and provide a conversion for the recipient.

I didn't have time to check if you could pass parameters, but you can do that investigation yourself from here!

Thanks Steve, and thanks Paul for the original link which is all about the distinctly new features of Windows 2008, now accessible at www.Tinyurl.com/242nek

The Big Picture of how XML standards fit together

There is a nice guy called Ken Sall who spent some considerable time putting together a graphic with links in that will be useful to many of you.

Especially if you come to meet XML for the first time through your exposure to SQL Server.

It links with the standards organisation pages that explain all the relevant standards and the graphic shows how they fit together.

I always find a big picture works wonders to help you get started!