So, today Princess, T and I found an Amstrad Video Recorder at the Elwood School Markets. I didn't even know they made such things, although my brother Rick bought one of their weirdo CP/Mish running machines back in the 80's (before seeing the light...

See here for the shlock backstory. Some say shlock(1) was the pinnacle of concurrency control, and from that point on things only got more complex and, well, shlocky . Still others say that it was the name of a particularly opinionated Siamese cat that...

Although it doesn't officially go live until 1st July, you can check it out now at www.microsoft.com/architecture . I've had a quick sniff through it, and it looks pretty good.