Every F1 fan I know has been worried about the future of Grand Prix racing. The Bernie & Max show had gotten way out of hand. This season has been a flop (regulation changes that had little effect on budget or overtaking – including the failed KERS system)

Today, Max “KERS & Dungeons” Mosley has finally been faced down by FOTA and the fans. Happily, he will be stepping down in October. It is likely he will be relinquishing day to day control earlier than that. As always, James Allen has an excellent write up F1 breakaway threat forces peace deal «.

The questions now are:

1. How badly has next season been damaged by all this wasted time
2. How do we get rid of Bernie Ecclestone

I just got this in my inbox – it seems to be pretty malicious as the URL really point to the following domain

I have no idea what malice this may cause, and I am not about to find out.

UPDATE – I have received this a number of times now with multiple subject lines. Here they are:

• Microsoft has released an update for Microsoft Outlook
• Microsoft Outlook Critical Update
• Update for Microsoft Outlook
• Install Critical Update for Microsoft Outlook

Wow – Hot Fun In the Summertime.

Windows 7 will be in stores for the holidays, beginning October 22nd, 2009. In order for this to happen, the RTM (Release to Manufacturing) will be made available to Microsoft partners in the last two weeks of July.

Windows 7 General Availability Announced | Sarah In Tampa | Channel 10

Numerous sources report that Microsoft confirmed the October 22 ship date today.

“Racing with Ferrari means even more than racing in formula one,” said Alonso.  “Any child who plays with a red car knows it is a Ferrari: it means something more.  When you are with Ferrari you will never be forgotten.”

Formula 1 complete – all access F1 – Alonso comments on Ferrari and FIA: “I like winning”

I particularly appreciate them clearly calling out the issue of many of the big operations signing on as providers but failing to become relying partners (RPs). I am very pleased to see Facebook stepping up, I believe Plaxo has also. Once the others fall in line, I really think OpenID will begin to deliver on its promise. I would even be happy if there was a clear process of independent providers to certified so that the big players will rely on them.

Next09: Video Interview With Chris Messina On The Current State Of OpenID

OK social network, do your stuff. I am going to be traveling in Italy next week and need some restaurant recommendations for anything pretty much with a 3 hour drive of Turin. If you have anything else that is not to be missed, please pass it on.

#1 Italian translation on 5.16.2010 at 11:39 AM

La Bocca in Milan is an excellent restaurant that serves traditional Tuscan food. I have eaten there four times and can strongly recommend it.

These are the places I am going to start

Build Your Own WordPress Themes the Easy Way

http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Frameworks

then go to

http://webgambit.com/blog/converting-a-wordpress-theme-to-grafffiti/

I think I should be able to get something functional and good looking pretty quickly.

Now I just have to start.

Scott Hanselman calls it “paving” I think of it as “repaving” because this machine has been rebuilt so many times. This is a preliminary list – I will add more as I need more – but this is the bare minimum.

Windows Live

• Messenger (run it in Vista SP2 compatibility to get it to minimize to the system tray)
• Live Writer
• Photo Gallery
• Movie Maker

Virtual Clone Drive  freeware for mounting .iso images

Live Mesh

Visual Studio 2008 Pro

• no c++
• no Crystal Reports
• no SQL 2005 Express
• Then apply SP1 (that is a must have)

Visual Studio/Development additions needed

• Visual SVN
• Live Framework SDK
• SQL Server Developer Edition 2008
• KaXAML
• Windows Mobile Developer for WiMo 6.0
• Web Platform Installer
  • ASP.NET MVC

Notepad2 & Notepad++ (I haven’t picked a favorite)

Paint.net

Fiddler2 beta 2.x – great HTTP snooper and invaluable REST spelunker

Kaspersky AV (Tech preview for win7) – I had been a fan of the free version of AVG, but it has become to intrusive – too many geegaws – I want something stripped down.

Windows Home Server Client (HP MediaSmart)

Office 2007

• word
• excel
• outlook
• access
• PowerPoint
• OneNote
• 2007 Microsoft Office Add-in: Microsoft Save as PDF
• TEO 3.0 – Tablet Enhancements for Oulook

Beyond Compare Pro from Scootersoft – this program rocks – will change your life!

Zune Client (yeah, that’s right – I love the subscription)

VLC Video Player

Prish Image Resizer – I need one and Scott says that this is the one to have. So I am getting it

At work we use AIM – but I am trying out Pidgin to reduce the amount of advertising I have to contend with.