I've been pretty busy of late with projects I can't discuss (as usual) so I haven't had a lot to talk about. (Though I'm running a little secret blog that I'll explain in a few posts.)

Some exciting stuff though:

• I've finally had a couple of hours to move my main work machine to the RTM versions of Vista and Office. I've been running on RC1 which has been behaving fairly well, so there was no great rush, but it is nice to be settled on a final version. My build has felt very temporary over the past few months.
• So far so good with RTM too - it's even faster and in particular some of the demo work I've been building in WPF - which isn't even remotely optimised for speed - is running well.
• I was in TechEd in Barcelona the other week at IT Forum speaking on HPC architectures. It was an interesting event, as typically I'd be at the Developer event (being a software architect) so I got to see how the other half lived. There was a lot of excitement over Exchange as far as I could tell, though the sessions I attended were more on identity (Windows CardSpace) and collaboration stuff like MOSS and Groove.
• Talking of HPC, I managed to complete a paper on a solution architecture for HPC based on the work with BAE and recently the University of Manchester. I'm hoping that this will be published on MSDN and will be my first proper publication for Microsoft. Hurrah!

So quite a bit happening, and I'll try and describe things in more detail as I can.