i couldn’t help but chuckle after reading this and staring at the irony smack in the middle of the article (source: msnbc):

In a rare occurrence, the CIA fired an officer who acknowledged giving classified information to a reporter, NBC News learned Friday.

and where’s the irony you ask…well if you read further…

Sources said the CIA believes McCarthy had more than a dozen unauthorized contacts with Priest. Information about subjects other than the prisons may have been leaked as well.

The sources spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the firing.

yep, that’s right, notice the bold part…lmao.

i’ve noticed a design trend along “web 2.0” sites…

verbdate.com

37signals.com

rubyonrails.com

ning.com

edgeio.com

framework.zend.com

notice all the ‘choices’ in-your-face design.  not that there’s anything wrong with that.  just an observation.  i think like anything in the world, people see good things and they emulate them.  this is no different when people see good, simple, ui designs and emulate them as well.

.net compact framework released an sp1 for v2: NETCFv2SP1

ever wonder what microsoft does to manage sharepoint disaster recovery?

podcast: How Microsoft IT Manages SharePoint Disaster and Recovery

tags: sharepoint, microsoft

also updated/released/refreshed today (don’t know which one since i didn’t know about it before) are a bunch of feature packs for sql 2005.

download the feature packs to get

• Microsoft ADOMD.NET
• Microsoft Core XML Services (MSXML) 6.0
• Microsoft OLEDB Provider for DB2
• Microsoft SQL Server Management Pack for MOM 2005
• Microsoft SQL Server 2000 PivotTable Services
• Microsoft SQL Server 2000 DTS Designer Components
• Microsoft SQL Server Native Client
• Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services 9.0 OLE DB Provider
• Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Backward Compatibility Components
• Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Command Line Query Utility
• Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Datamining Viewer Controls
• Microsoft SQL Server 2005 JDBC Driver
• Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Management Objects Collection
• Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Mobile Edition
• Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Notification Services Client Components
• Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Upgrade Advisor
• Microsoft .NET Data Provider for mySAP Business Suite, Preview Version
• Reporting Add-In for Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2005 Express
• Microsoft Exception Message Box
• Data Mining Managed Plug-in Algorithm API for SQL Server 2005

tags: sql