When designing and developing screens for our desktop application GiftWorks we design to a window size of 800x600. Oddly enough there isn't an easy way to do this in Windows. I've used some utilities before but have recently stumbled upon a very simepl utlity for doing just that.

Sizer sits quietly in your taskbar tray and subtly modifies every window with options to set the precise size of a window. The specific sizes can be easily configured if the defaults aren't adequate. I really like this program. It's simple and focuses on a single function.

A product of Brian Apps

I occasionally need to post source code to my site for others to read. I have been using a simple web tool for this and it seems to work fairly well. Here is the url: http://manoli.net/csharpformat/. See an example here.

My daughter just loves cats. We actually don't have any at our house, but our neighbor has 4 kittens that spend a lot of time with us. She's almost 4 and loses all ability to think rationally when the kittens are around. My wife forwarded me this picture the other day. We can both totally see our daughter doing this. It would also take a lot to convince her to not keep them or bring them into our house.

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Based on a previous post of mine, I started hunting for a source code repository to use. I found several. The one I liked the best was snipplr.com. There were a few reasons I liked this service. It has a very simple, clean interface. It has a simple, open API for accessing your snippets from other applications. It keeps track of snippet changes. It handles colorizing source code. It provides tagging of my snippets. I've also had no problems reaching it and it seems snappy.

As an experiment, I've added a snippet sidebar to my source code editor, Parachute, which can be downloaded from my website. Just open the options and enter your snipplr API key. Your snippets should show up and can be filtered by the tag bar at the top. Double-click on a snippet to paste it in the editor pane. Please try it out and let me know how you like it.

I received an email recently with this bulldog picture attached. That's a seriously big bulldog! I don't know if it's a hoax or not. Maybe you know. The email reads...

Answers to the name of Dolly.
FREE to approved home, will eat anything, excellent guard
dog. Loves other small-dog breeds.
Owner cannot afford to feed him anymore, and there are no
more thieves, murderers, rapists or molesters left in the neighborhood.
Your help will be appreciated....

Look's pretty real to me.

UPDATE: We now have photos of the World's Smallest Bulldog.