First I wanted to pass along the latest from the SysInternals guys.  They have exposed their oh so useful tools via a UNC path \\live.sysinternals.com\tools.  What this means to you and me is that you can get the tools you need when you need them as long as you have Internet access.  Heck, you can even run them directly from a command prompt via the UNC path.  That, my friends, rocks!

Second, I'm delving back into the DNN world.  I've been out of touch with it for a few months but I have a new upcoming project that just screams DNN so I'm going to be going back in.  While getting re-setup I started thinking that it would be really nice to have something like DNN that runs in the cloud.  As you have no doubt gathered, I'm extremely hot on Amazon Web Services.  What I think would be a good idea would be to write / port something like DNN over to AWS.  This could be true for a number of existing frameworks.  The risk is low since you already know which frameworks are valuable based on their usage, all I'm really talking about here is changing the underlying hardware infrastructure.

Third, I wanted to provide an update to a previous post about the lack of participation in the raffle tickets fund raiser for my kid's school.   As it turned out, a number of families returned their tickets late, and a number number of families had returned tickets but they were "held up" somewhere along the line.  The wife did some asking around and we found a great big stack of sold tickets!  After counting them up tonight we have approximately 20% of the original 7K that were distributed already sold!  That means we are just over 1/2 way to covering the cost of the prizes!  We will be distributing another 10K or so to the parish and we are hopefully looking at a nice return after all.

Now, if I can only figure out where to get my hands on 100 Xbox/Wii/PSP boxes for the video game tournament ;-}

TTFN