I have worked out that it probably is not a good idea to have four copies of Microsoft Visual Studio running at one time. I can assure you that this is NOT a good thing to do. Earlier today I managed to get my computer to toally lock up – requiring a reboot. Only by presing the ON button for something like 10 seconds did the machine even reset. It was some type of cascading failure that I think I can associate with VisualStudio. It is not that VS.2005 is a bad or buggy product. It is more that it does require significant resources to run.

So what have I been up to this afternoon? Well, if you have not picked it up already, programming. I have been working on the administrator program for my WebServices application. As much as anything else I am using the Admin program as a way to learn how to drive this new tool that I have got written. It is like building a car (or a plane)… After you have spent the time working on it, building it, you want to take it out on the highway, open up the throttle and see how it performs. And see if it performs badly going around corners. For that matter does it even go around corners.

In my particular case I am finding that the breaks work, the windscreen is good, and the suspension is good, although there are a few bolts that need tightening, and the back seat has not yet been installed. And of course there is a single red light on the dash. And an experienced mechanic will know exactly what this light means if it ever goes on.

Thankfully in this case I have a really good mechanic…