Microsoft shocks world with Longhorn betas

Hmm...I wonder why the world would be so "shocked", seeing how Vista Beta 2 was at least 6 months overdue. :)

Skype Offers Free Calls to Regular Phones

Yep! It's true. (I just tried it!)
You can now skype out to regular North American phone numbers for free. Well, at least until the end of 2006.

Using the .NET Framework Class Library from Visual Basic 6

I stumbled onto this link while reading another blog. Using .NET framework classes from VB6? Now that's just plain crazy talk!
Or is it?