David Mohundro (aka "MO") set up his blog over the weekend: http://www.mohundro.com/blog.  Everyone say hello to David.

Under "Configuration" > "Appearance Settings" in dasBlog, there is a neat little option called "Use Post Title for Permalink."  This sounds like a good idea, right?  I thought so, so I turned it on.  Cool... it gets rid of that GUID-looking mess in your URLs when people (you) link to your site.  Life is good.  I updated my links to reflect their new descriptive URLs, but then I thought "I wonder how it handles non-alpha/numeric characters", so tried clicking on an example titled "Control-click + Taskbar = Awesome!".  Guess what!  "Page not found".  Bummer.  I just got done changing all my links back

Until the windows world is completely managed (never), .NET devs are going to have to get their heads wrapped around unmanaged resource cleanup.  Here are some good resources to get you started:

• Joe Duffy: Never write a finalizer again (well, almost never)
• Joe Duffy: Dispose, Finalization, and Resource Management
• Shawn Farkas: SafeHandle

In addition, Francesco Balena has posted a pattern that avoids most of the complexity of the disposable pattern.  For more, see his post.

A remind to anyone with a Hitachi Deskstar T7K250:

If you're expecting 3.0Gb/s performance, remember that you're not going to get it until you turn it on.  The drive ships in compatibility mode (1.5Gb/s) since some systems don't support 3.0.  Here the link to the utility that allows you to enable 3.0:

http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/support/download.htm

On my new computer, I was having trouble with my mouse cursor sporadically freezing.  About once an hour it would just lock whenever it was and refuse to move for 10+ seconds.  I went to the Asus newsgroups and saw that others were having trouble specifically with USB mouses, but offered no solution.  For several weeks I just put up with the problem.  I couldn't see any correlation between what I was working on or running when the cursor would freeze, but I did find that pressing any keyboard key (including [Control]) would free the cursor... so for a time I went on with my life just pressing [Control] whenever the cursor locked.  BUT I happened to be messing around in the motherboard BIOS and saw an options for USB 1.1 support.  It was turned on, so I thought I would see what would happen if it was off.  Sure enough... no more mouse freezes.  Any hardware guru care to explain why?