Here. Rory Blyth, potentially the most entertaining writer in the bloggesphere, has offered to be your own personal PDC reporter, attending the topics that you can't and writing them up for you. I'm not sure if he's willing to do this, but maybe you could talk him into wearing your clothers while he does it. I'm XXL, Rory, and like neon colors. I'll send my session schedule later today and you just hit all the ones I can't, OK? Great. Thanks!

Here. I don't think I've mentioned it here, but I'm really looking forward to the Windows Forms pre-conference tutorial I'm giving with Rocky Lhotka at the PDC. I've never spoken at a PDC before but it'll be just like old times with Don, Tim and Martin down the hall. Also, I've never spoken with Rocky before, but he's also a big Midwesterner with a strong opinion, so it should be fun. Plus, he prefers semi-colonless languages, so all kinds of sparks should fly as I attempt to convert him to the one, true way and he does the same to me. We may have trouble remembering there's an audience. : )

Here. "LonghornBlogs.com is a community initiative to help spread the word with factual information about the next version of Windows, straight from the people that are building it. Because of this, the majority of people posting here (at least for now) will be Microsoft employees. Our intention here was to keep the signal-to-noise ratio extremely low. You won't find too many personal posts here, just good solid information about Longhorn."

Here. While the .NET Resource Kit is targeted at VB programmers, it comes with tons of real 3rd party controls for free that work just as well for C# programmers as well as VB.NET programmers.

Here. There's only 11 days left on this: "Microsoft is pleased to offer Visual Studio .NET 2002 Professional, Enterprise Developer, and Enterprise Architect customers a corresponding upgrade to a Visual Studio .NET 2003 product for only $29 US. This offer is open until September 30, 2003."

Here. This site is cool. It rolls up helpful info on my book, along with blogger mentions. Nice.

Here. "MSBuild is the next generation build engine that delivers scalability and flexibility for the entire range of build scenarios, from the basics to complex build-lab scenarios. Drill into the capabilities of this universal build engine for Visual Studio 'Whidbey' and the 'Longhorn' operating system"

Here. Watch this space.