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I just got the new Windows Media Player 11 Beta and it’s pretty cool. The upgrade broke the Turn on “What I’m listening to” feature in MSN / Windows Live Messenger. Here’s the steps to getting Turn on “What I’m listening to” working again.

Click the Now Playing menu (not the button).

Scroll to plug-ins - Other - and make sure that “Windows Live Messenger Music Plugin” is selected. I’m guessing there’s similiar option for MSN Messenger Music Plugin, but I can’t say for sure.

I decided to move to WordPress. I seem to be moving more and more to the dark side. I’ve worked with WordPress on a few other sites and I have to admit it’s a much better experience than I’ve had with any .net blogging software (.text, community server, some wierd dotnetnuke modules).

I’m learning PHP and it’s a lot like classic ASP except for one thing that I’ve noticed - you can do a more in PHP than classic ASP in fewer lines of code. I think this comes down to available libraries - PHP seems to have many more libraries to access than classic ASP did. I dunno, that’s just how PHP feels so far..