A nice story about one guy, who used to be a trader and decided to quit for good.

Looking for a way to integrate Subversion with Visual Studio .NET 2005 I came across AnkhSVN - an open source VS.NET plugin which does exactly that.

An article in EconBrowser tells an interesting and probably worrying story of an employee pension fund for the City of San Diego, USA.

Looks like Yahoo! follows closely Google - they have now something called SiteExplorer - very similar to what Google provides via Webmasters tools.

Most important, they now support sitemaps, which is very convenient.

A very interesting article in The Guardian tells the story of a nice elderly couple from Ashford, UK, which has built a property empire worth £280 million. It's simply amazing what you can reach, if you start at the right time and in the right place.

If you are really interested, here is the full 2007 budget speech, given by Gordon Brown on 21st of March 2007

In this my eleventh Budget, my report to the country is of rising employment and rising investment; continuing low inflation, and low interest and mortgage rates; and this is a Budget to expand prosperity and fairness for Britain's families - and it is built on the foundation of the longest period of economic stability and sustained growth in our country's history.

According to LINQ FAQ (see question 5), F# is listed among the target languages for Oscar - the next generation of Visual Studio, together with C# and VB.NET.

A review of the latest budget speech from the small business point of view has been published.

A simple Q&A article about the budget is available on BBC.

I was deeply disappointed to discover, that .NET framework 2.0 didn't contain XQuery implementation.

Lord Chancellor has delivered his new budget speech for 2007. Surprisingly for many, he promised some tax cuts for businesses and individuals alike. Not surprisingly, most of the money will be recovered from the tax payer using new taxes and elimination of existing allowances.