Carl and the insane gang have created mini-outtakes from Mondays for busy people who need a good laugh but have to work harder to find the window for the full show. Here are two really silly ones that had me laughing pretty hard.

First one is a good poke at the finger in the chili at Wendy’s: here

Second is some more silliness with high tech and a guy with an unfortunate name here

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Sheesh first it’s David Chappell at Boston.NET and in another few weeks in D.C. Brad Abrams and Kit George are in Atlanta as part of a CLR tour.

I know our beautiful scenery, great maple syrup and small but very warm and engaging .NET community aren’t enough for Microsoft to justify spending big bucks to get people like that here. It requires bigger reasons than a user group and outside of IDX, there really isn’t a potential client big enough in Vermont to justify the trip. Heck we don’t even get MSDN events anymore.

All the more reason for a Vermont.NET Code Camp…. don’t ya think?

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Robert is tasked with recreating Team 99. Since they are only talking about 20 people, think hard if you really are up for this. Sure it’s an honor and sounds cool, but will you install Longhorn? Play with it a lot? Talk about it a lot? Evangelize it? These are the things you should be willing to do. I know that I definitely can’t make that commitment. I’m too busy with Whidbey and WSE and wegular work (sorry couldn’t help it).

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It didn’t go well.

I used the VS2005 Cleanup tool and then uninstalled all sql server 2005 stuff from the add/remove programs panel. Maybe I didn’t do the sql correctly.

VS2005 Beta 2 installed charmingly. I did not install SQL 2005 Express with that.

Then I ran into a not uncommon problem with my SQL Server 2005 install which told me that all of my key SQL Server stuff was still installed.

Indeed it was still there. And I could not get rid of it.

I found info (thanks Wally) about using MSIINV.EXE (here’s a link to download) to list the offending products, grab their GUIDs and then use MSIEXEC -x to uninstall them but the MSIEXEC failed too… on every single one.

So after the 5 hours I have invested in this, now it’s time to give in and just repave the entire machine.

Since I have to travel with it (so I don’t have to carry two computers) I also need to install a bunch of other stuff on it, so I think my day is shot.

🙁

(No, this box will not handle VPC but thanks in advance for the many suggestions to do so. I will, however, install the base stuff and ghost it before I install any of the beta bits.)

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