This post originated from an RSS feed registered with .NET Buzz by Korby Parnell. Original Post: PowerToys Feed Title: Korby Parnell Feed URL: /msdnerror.htm?aspxerrorpath=/korbyp/Rss.aspx Feed Description: Copyright 2003 Korby Parnell Fri, 01 Aug 2003 10:03:48 GMT ChrisAn's BlogX korbyp@microsoft.com korbyp@microsoft.com Alex Lowe Joins Microsoft http://blogs.gotdotnet.com/korbyp/permalink.aspx/536bb108-6a66-4dc6-8847-69f4d799bb55 http://blogs.gotdotnet.com/korbyp/permalink.aspx/536bb108-6a66-4dc6-8847-69f4d799bb55 Fri, 01 Aug 2003 10:03:48 GMT From ASP.NET MVP to Microsoft .NET Evangelist.  Success is the domain of good guys.  Welcome aboard Alex.  I look forward to meeting you in person.  Thanks to ScottW for posting the big announcement. Este mensaje se proporciona "como está" sin garantías de ninguna clase, y no otorga ningún derecho. Latest .NET Buzz Posts Latest .NET Buzz Posts by Korby Parnell Latest Posts From Korby Parnell

Wunderkammern--a word that appears in the title of my blog--is a German word that means "wonder cabinet".  I love this word because it so accurately and poetically describes the place, be it virtual or physical, where each of us stores the strange stuff that fascinates us so much more than the next person. As defined on Wondercabinet.com, Wunderkammern are "Wonder Cabinets or Cabinets of Curiosities, were the eclectic and often bizarre early precursors to museums in sixteenth and seventeenth century Europe. Affluent households would create a wonder cabinet - often an entire room rather than a cabinet - filled with natural specimens, artworks, and oddities."

Our collective notion of museums--and thus wunderkammern--as physical places filled with physical entities is increasingly eroded and dematerialized by the ubiquity of electronic space in our lives. At Microsoft, we have a nice little company museum. But you can't walk into that museum to sit down at a pristine Windows 3.1 box with AutoCad 10 and AMIPro on it. To find that kind of exhibit, if it exists, you must go online.

eWunderkammern fascinate me.  As a collector of practical programming utilities (some people call them PowerToys), Scott Hanselman's little wonder cabinet caught my eye.

Steve writes: 

"Wow. This is a list you need to check out: Scott Hanselman's Ultimate Developer and Power Tools List. Im finding all sorts of goodies i've been missing out on."

Scott is a true collector.  About one utility he writes,

"FeedReader - The first RSS reader I used.  I don't think it's being worked on anymore, but I keep it around because it's lightweight and I'm nostalgic."

Welcome to my Blogroll, Scott.

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