Links for Shutdown day.
Posting these links on Shutdown day is just a coincidence.
I'm not a person who is unfriendly to the environment.
http://www.shutdownday.org/
Fact: In our house my lovely Brazilian wife, Leticia, and myself do all we can to teach our three children to be conservative.
We do not waste any food, we recycle everything and we make it a point to have near zero trash at the end of each week.
This has turned into a family activity that we all enjoy.
I've added a photo of the kids to my Photos page.
And now our regularly scheduled program... 
Steve Schofield posted some very important information about IIS7 and Access DBs.
If you're working with Classic ASP or ASP.NET on IIS7 please take a look at these helpful posts.
IIS 7.0, Access 2007 and ASP.NET 2.0
http://weblogs.asp.net/steveschofield/archive/2008/05/03/iis-7-0-access-2007-and-asp-net-2-0.aspx
IIS 7.0, Classic ASP and Access 2007
http://weblogs.asp.net/steveschofield/archive/2008/05/03/iis-7-0-classic-asp-and-access-2007.aspx
The Microsoft EDUFun blog team points out the benefits of the new Popfly Game Creator:
http://blogs.msdn.com/edufun/archive/2008/05/03/popfly-game-creator-the-popfly-family-just-got-a-little-bigger.aspx
By the way, keep an eye on the EDUFun blog for some exciting stuff:
http://blogs.msdn.com/edufun/archive/2008/05/02/edufun-making-education-fun-for-kids-of-all-ages-through-innovative-use-of-technology.aspx
Jamie Rodriguez is very excited about the changes to IE "Click to Activate" and Installing Silverlight without a re-start:
http://blogs.msdn.com/jaimer/archive/2008/05/02/installing-silverlight-no-longer-requires-a-browser-re-start-woohoo.aspx
Automatically Start Silverlight on Install
http://blogs.msdn.com/piotrp/archive/2008/05/02/automatically-start-silverlight-on-install.aspx
John Mullinax shares "Why RoboChamps has something for you"
http://blogs.msdn.com/johnmullinax/archive/2008/05/03/why-robochamps-has-something-for-you.aspx
Some of you know I donated all of my Valve projects and code to the George Brown College of Game Arts in Canada.
Including one of my sites and the domains: http://sdknuts.net/
Point being, while I'm done with anything related to Valve/Steam I would definitely jump into RoboChamps. 
It looks very cool.
The IIS7 team talks about how IPv6 stacks up on IIS7.
http://blogs.iis.net/nazim/archive/2008/05/03/using-ipv6-with-iis7.aspx
I absolutely love the changes in Windows Server 2008, Vista SP1 and IIS7.
Lately I've been doing a lot of research on the IIS7 Manager.
While the DiscountASP.NET crew was working on some new addons it was killing me to keep this secret. 
Once the IIS7 team found out they got very excited:
http://blogs.iis.net/mailant/archive/2008/05/02/discountasp-net-iis-manager-ui-extensions.aspx
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