Paul gets a bit wordy, but I really like the idea that most of the concepts we use in our programming languages are optimizations. How much simpler would programming be if we could do away with things like the artificial distinction between arrays and strings?

From Carlos Aquino: Sometimes you have to upgrade to a better system, sometimes you have to change your plataform and sometimes you just want to try other methods. Find how you can migrate without a headache and sleepless nights.

If you care about where MSDN is going, you'll want to check out the new blog from Sara Williams, the Fountain of MSDN Justice (and my grandboss).

Lutz Roeder, the author of Reflector.NET, caves in and starts his blog. And what a way to start: he posts a decompiler plug-in for Reflection.NET. Welcome, Lutz.

I'm an HTPC guy from way back, so Longhorn’s audio/video plans from WinHEC sound cool to me. [ActiveWin.com]

I'm very much looking forward to either iTunes being available for Windows or someone else letting me purchase songs one at a time. In fact, as soon as that happens, my wife [ahem] owes the RIAA several hundred dollars in "back-fees" for "pre-downloaded" mp3s (she's always been very ahead of her time...)

I take this as a sign that the RIAA is finally realizing what’s going on. That is only goodness.

Of course, David Chappel tends to appear at more MS-related events than not, so he's biased like the rest of the folks reading this post (well, maybe not as biased as some : ). However, he examines the 2001, 2002 and 2003 CERT Coordination Center’s security advisory data and finds that things are definitely moving in the right direction for Windows folk(although not as fast as we'd like, of course).