My blog is hosted by msdn.com which is Microsoft Developers Network but my blog is very rarely about Dev work. However, I actually do sit down and code here and there. Mostly for internal projects at work. It's been a while since I wrote something non-work related.
    There was a time where msdn bloggers were given the opportunity to switch over to blogs.technet.com which is the general MS IT professional blog and since it made more sense if you weren't a developer. Ironically I was involved in a dev project at the time that I'm finishing up now so I was too busy to notice. (I think that is actually irony too. It bothers me when people use the word 'ironically' for things that don't really involve irony. 'Coincidentally' is usually better in most cases. (Also lots of us misuse the word 'randomly', saying that something 'randomly' happened when we caused it to happen.).) OK I just randomly (see what I mean) went off on a tangent but back to the topic at hand. My job title is not actually software developer but I do get to code which is cool because it gives me a chance to have a lil' fun outside of whatever the usual stuff is; not that what I do isn't fun. But I have a channce to do my own thing in code without the pressure of super-concrete deadlines, PM specs, testers, etc.
     I've been working with Visual Studio 2005 for the last few months and I'm glad that everyone else is finally able to use the cool features. This should be #1 on every kid's X-mas list right above X-box 360. I was impressed with VS 6.0 after having started my coding life in UNIX, and then I was impressed with 2003 after doing most of my coding in 6.0. VS 2005 does a great job at continuing those trends. There's the obvious stuff like enhanced ease-of-use and customization, etc. I will not scare my friends and family away from my blog by going into details. The real nerds know where to look for that stuff.
     The thing that sucks to me is now having to update code that was based on .Net Framework 1 since some APIs have been obsoleted. Its one of those things that is for the better but is just annoying to deal with. I guess that's just a part of life though. As soon as you get comfortable with something, things change and you are in a new situation that you have to get comfortable with. You may want to do yourself a favor and check here before you find out the hard way that something is screwed up.