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Again, there is just too much to do at work (with more responsibility) and in preparing talks for HDC and VSLive and the blogging and New and Notables have suffered. It isn't going to get better. If anything, the pace is picking up in both. To the end, I was very glad that our whole family spent the morning with Jonathan's fellow Tiger/Cub Scouts picking up bags of food all throughout Nashua after we had left bags last weekend. We collected thousands of food items. It's the least we can do. So I have a bunch of stuff bookmarked in Outlook/NewsGator. I don't have any idea if it is the most current but its the stuff I care about in no specific order:

• On the CLR/Rotor front, I mentioned as far back as the PDC at the Rotor BOF, that Peter Drayton had given me permission to mention that there would be a Rotor 2.0 sometime after Whidbey ships and that the CLR and Rotor teams had merged. As Robert mentions, Peter had again verified this with a newsgroup post. This was also verified in my discussions that Phil and I had with Kit George.
• Scott Hanselman has some more great Presentation Tips for people running VirtualPC or VMware. I have to make sure to incorporate these at HDC.
• Rob's New Team Stuff post on the 17th has a whole pile of great stuff including
• PowerPoint slides from Visual Studio 2005 Team System presentations at DevConnections in Las Vegas (November 2004). - Microsoft Download Center and Brian White : Project Management, Version Control, Work Item Tracking Presentations
• Visual Studio: Order Your Free Partner Product DVD [via Jim Blizzard]
• Shawn Farkas has a bunch of great posts on something I am very interested in currently; the Managed Hosting API with great AppDomian posts like Creating an AppDomain with limited permissions, An Enhanced Version of the Sandboxed AppDomain, and Customizing the AppDmain Creation Process. Boy, is this great stuff!
• Area New England's own Duane Laflotte explains Symmetric Encryption
• Yasser has a great post on some new features in Whidbey to help solve issues with dealing with large data. At Adesso, this issue is at the forefront of our distributed secured sync protocol over WS-* using DIME. We have addressed in a different way that includes chunking and doesn't require Whidbey but these are great ideas.
• There is probably less and less need for a book like Windows Internals, 4th Edition with a lot of the abstractions we have now like .NET or so I thought. Just last week, we were in situations on the PDA where Phil and I had to dip down into the kernel layer stuff and SendMessage, etc to get around certain issues there. As Al Pacino says, “Just when I thought I was out, they drag me back in!“
• I plan a more substantive post on Software Factories as I have read about 3/4 of the whole book, but for now, I note the availability of the The Domain Specific Language tools workbench(http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/vs2005/teamsystem/workshop/dsltools) which is the “practical“ tool out of all that theory (yes it's pretty heady stuff even for Architects)