Tom Rizzo made my day when he admitted that he couldn't figure out how to include an image in his blog. I found it very amusing because when I ran into the same issue about two months ago, I had to email my buddy Dave Burke and ask “how the hell do you do that in your blog“?
This just proves that there is no reason to be embarrassed to ask even a simple technical question regardless of your background. A few months ago I was doing contract work for my previous employer and the architect from my old team called me to his office to help him with something. Ron is a programming/architecting guru, in my opinion the best in Vermont when it comes to Microsoft technologies. So here we were in his office, downloading VS 2005 and scratching our heads trying to figure out what those *.IMG files were and what to do with them. We never found out, he said he was gonna ask around. Then last Saturday I download VS 2005 and this time I had to figure it out. I started writing an email to Dave again, but then my pride won and I spent 30 minutes googling to finally find out that all I have to do is change the extension from IMG to ISO and use any CD burning software to make a CD. Yeah, go figure!
Since I am planning to rebuild my home computer soon, I decided to install CTP3 on it. I didn't get very far though, the install wizard crashes with a non-descriptive “fatal error” (don't you love those?). The install log files don't provide any useful details. So I guess I'll have to go back to using SQL Server 2005 on a Virtual PC since I am neither willing nor allowed to install anything beta on my work laptop.