Many people have bugged me that I haven't posted in awhile.  That isn't because I don't have anything interesting to say :-).  Mainly I've been working lately on a project that is a bit of a skunkworks even for Microsoft.  It's rare that a very small group (in this case mainly 3 of us -- myself and 2 architects) have been heads down working on something rather exciting that currently no one is yet supporting.  We think the idea is pretty big and may have some appeal outside of the walled garden of Microsoft.  We're gearing up for a big executive review where we want to show this thing off and hopefully get the permission to go ahead and turn it into a real product.  Personally I think it's something that will delight the end user.  It won't be perfect by any stretch of the imagination at least not in it's first version -- but part of the exercise that we're doing is to create something that could be sitting under your tree for Christmas, waiting next to the Menorah for Hannukah or wrapped up for whatever your favorite holiday is at the end of the year.

All that said, I am going to start blogging again, but the content might be light or on topics that have little relation to much else, but that's par for the course on the web as we're all amateurs looking to be discovered :-)