Wow, this week looks to be busy. Sometimes it seems like a lot, and other times it doesn't. This week I'll be doing something different almost every day. I'm staring out Monday afternoon with a webcast on AJAX - XMLHttpRequest object, in which we'll be covering what it is and how it fits into the AJAX...

So what will it be? Are you in or out? A player or simply on the team? Life is about participation, getting into the game and seeing where your natural talents take you. I was thinking about this the other day, and it seems to me that there is a lot of challenges we run into out there in the real world...

If you've got something to say, then say it already... - unknown Writing software over the years has meant that I've had to learn a number of languages. In college I had a class where we had to write a program in Pascal, C, Fortran, Lisp, Prolog, ADA and Smalltalk. Take a simple idea and implement it...

So, I've been blogging off of my old site blogs.benko.com/michael and now It's a new site. I'm excited to be part of the MSDN team and working on making the world a safer place for technology. Tomorrow I'll be at University of Texas showing off the new XNA Express product (in beta) that gives you the...