Adjunct Professor Aleksey Nudelman for UCLA extension interviews Chris Sells on the history and future of the Windows Forms Programming book, which he uses as the text in his Windows Forms extension course.

If you ignore Rory on IM, you get fun stuff like this:

Rory [Shut up] says:

Hey - are you really away, or are you faking it so that people like me won’t write to you?

Rory [Shut up] says:

Well. I guess you’re really away.

Rory [Shut up] writes:

Rory [Shut up] writes:

Rory [Shut up] writes:

Rory [Shut up] writes:

Rory [Let’s get stinky together]] writes:

“I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.” –Groucho Marx

I must fit into some kind of quota (Windows programmers? Authors? Norwegians? Big, Dopey, White Guys?) for Mensa to let me in…

And don’t forget to steal the new flair, Rory… : )

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... : ).