Peter Stern strikes again, this time with fun XAML t-shirts, coffee mugs and laptop stickers. Ordered.

As I post this, 82 Microsoft employees classify themselves as blogging about Longhorn or Longhorn-related topics. I thought I knew them all, but there are some that were new to me.

Ever since WinXP, I’ve been using Terminal Server a ton. Recently, I’ve been using Virtual PC and when Virtual Server is released, I bet I’ll be using a lot of that, too.

However, as enabling as TS and VPC are, I want more. Instead of logging into a desktop and having the windows trapped on that desktop, I want the windows from a VPC or TS session to just show up on my local desktop, maybe using title bar colors to tell me which ones are running on which machines. I know that X-Windows has provided this for a while, but I want this for Windows. That is all.

Looking for the a job in Longhorn? CareerBuilder.com has 5 Longhorn jobs listed:

• Software Development Lead, Microsoft
• Program Manager, Microsoft
• Application Developer, Microsoft
• Bussers, Longhorn Steakhouse
• Trailer Technicians, Lancaster, TX

Those last two look tasty. : )

According to Paul Graham, hackers only program Python and never program NT, so none of the people that I would consider "great" hackers are, by Paul's definition, great. Given the quality of the hackers I was mistakenly classifying as great, I can't image what Paul's bar must be (or it could be that he's an elitist snob... : ).

I'm hanging out at the O’Reilly’s Open Source Convention today (downtown Portland) and I'm planning on bringing as many fun out of town open source geeks as I can to the Portland Nerd Dinner tonight. I make no guarantees, but if I find Linus, he's getting an invite. : )

Crappy Carl is giving away a crappy top-of-the-line Tablet PC to anyone that crappy fills in his crappy survey (and they don’t even have to listen to his crappy show to crappy win!).

BTW, Microsoft and SellsBrothers.com employees are not allowed to enter. Isn’t that crappy?!? : (

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Peter Stern, one of MSDN’s most excellent user experience and graphic designers, has started up a web site, with a special section just for fun Longhorn-related stuff, including a complete deck of card faces in XAML and his drawings of yours truly from the Longhorn Developer Center in XAML format.

I’ve been corrupting Peter’s thinking toward Longhorn for a few months now and I’ve fabulously happy to have him as the other half of that magical ying/yang designer/developer relationship that Avalon fosters.