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So far, my experience with .NET 3.0 hasn’t been all that great.  I don’t see that much of a change since .NET 2.0.  I guess I have been expecting beautifully rendered applications when in fact everything looks .NET 2.0ish.

When I installed the CTP of Orcas, it didn’t appear that anything had changed since Visual Studio 2005.  The Expressions designer is pretty cool.  However it’s not built into Visual Studio yet.  For me to have to go to one program to design the interface then to another to actually code the program is cumbersome.

I’m gonna give it one more try this week.  I saw a few online workshops that are meant to transition you to .NET 3.0.  So I’ll see what those have to offer.  I’m sure I’ll be pleased, but I just expected it to be a little more “plug and play” as far as learning it goes.

You learn something new every day.  Today I visited the Wikipedia (as I do many days).  I decided to first of all donate to the Wikimedia Foundation.

After donating, I decided to learn some history on wikis in general.  I found out that the term “wiki” comes from a bus that goes around in Hawaii.  The word means fast.  And “wiki wiki” means very fast.  How appropriate.  When I want the right information, fast, I go to the Wikipedia.  It has information on every subject that I have wanted information for, and is very unbiased.  But of course, that is only my opinion. 

Doesn’t it drive you crazy how if you leave your computer on when you leave work, the next day it’s slower than molasses to respond.  Well the reason why is because it’s been doing other things all night (like virus scans, checking for e-mail and such) and it swaps all the other running programs out into virtual memory (the hard drive).  Then after you’ve been working on it for a bit, it swaps things back into memory.

From what I hear, Vista is supposed to fix this.  I think it does something like swap back into memory the parts of applications that it uses the most.  So I guess it will have some sort of ranking feature to rank parts of an application that are used more than others.  When I get vista on a work machine, we’ll see how well it does…