Quick note to link to the training kit released with the advent of .NET 3.5 SP1.

Complete kit with presentation & events materials, hands on labs and demos on:

• ASP.NET MVC
• ASP.NET Dynamic Data
• ASP.NET AJAX History
• ASP.NET Routing
• ADO.NET Data Services
• ADO.NET Entity Framework
• WCF 3.5 SP1
• .NET Framework Client Profile

Yesterday I set up a tumblr account.  You can find me here. 

Don't ask me why I did it, specifically, because I still haven't figured that one entirely myself.  As it is, "keeping up" with one forum, if you will, is something I am still trying to sort out and manage.  I guess initially I feel like I can more easily and with less scrutiny (self that is), post to and leverage the tumblr canvas, letting me try out a larger number of ideas and approach without the need to think too much about structure or content.  Lets see how this goes.

My first take is that this community is like a beginner's blog tool meets del.icio.us meets twitter (grant me some slack for the analogy) meets facebook...???  In other words, you can easily create your "typical" post but then post links and videos and audio files, etc, all from within the provided interface.  It is very nice and clean and practical.

Let me know if you join so that I can "follow" you (see, there's your twitter reach).

I have configured my del.icio.us account to post daily summaries of the links I bookmark to my blog.

Since it is precisely that, a daily summary, this blog may start to show increased posting activity.

Summaries will be posted only on days on which I actually tag a URL with del.icio.us.  I find myself doing so about 2 or 3 times a week.  

I will try to keep the links relevant, the noise down and the comments appropriate and descriptive.  As usual, any feedback is certainly appreciated and encouraged.

I was looking for a simple icon to use as a "shotcut icon" for one of my pages, and I came across this wonderful, very elegant collection of FREE icons by Axialis in ICO, GIF and PNG formats in sizes from 16x6 up to 48x48 for the GIFs and PNGs.

They are released under the Creative Commons Attribution License. It means that you can use them in any project or website, commercially or not.

Very cool.  Thank you very much! I can see myself using these frequently, especially when I need some non-branded extra umf graphic appeal to my work.  I know I haven't mentioned it but I am seriously graphically challanged, so this is like huge for me... I am psyched.  As you can see, it doesn't take much.... oh well, sad but true.

UPDATE: My friend Benny pointed me to this additional resource with additional free icons... oh yeah, adding "stuff" to the library.