Quick links to various items in the news:

• There is a fun video here on creating gadgets using the Windows Sidebar. It turns out that almost anyone who can write a little HTML can create a Windows Sidebar gadget.
• Here is the API for creating Sidebar gadgets.
• TechEd Europe and LINQ Buzz.
• Microsoft's Soma receives a doctorate degree in India.
• Article on Iron Python
• Survey: Microsoft IIS Ahead of Apache in corporate sites. Details are here.
• A new round of Orcas samples for ADO.NET.