It appears Avalon will have spell checking build in the OS.

"It takes one woman nine months to have a baby. It cannot be done in one month by impregnating nine women (although it is more fun trying)."

More managment proverbs

via Brain.Save() and Alan Dean

Yes, there is a future and honestly can it really get much worse?

The future of source safe

but right now, I'm helping, moving a couple of Sharepoint portal server v1 sites with local accounts to Sharepoint portal server v2 and Active Directory accounts for teamspace. Meet the rest of the team:

Now that the PDC is almost over, only a couple more session to go, I realise i've been a terrible blogger, I haven't blogged once. And there actually are a number of reasons beside the most obvious: me being a lazy bum. But when I get back home on sunday, I'll try to write something (interesting) about every session I visited.

In the mean time, all I can say is, both Yukon and the new C# features look very promising.

Reports on the web indicate Google has the intention to auction shares early next year, raising an approximate $15bn - $25bn.

Eric Gunnerson announced the availability of the C# 2.0 specification.

Here's how to submit an article for MSDN online and the MSDN magazine.

If he's showing all these cool features in whidbey asp.net, I will be at ScottGu's talk. Skipping all these other talks.

Some highlights:

• Url Rewriting using the new UrlMapping Service.  Build vanity urls on your site (/products/shoes.aspx is re-written to really be processed by /products/productcatalog.aspx?id=shoes -- but the customer never knows it).  Talk about how this makes http.sys kernel level caching possible for dynamic pages.
• Using ValidationGroups.  You can now have validator controls optionally validate depending on which button on the page is pushed.  You can group validation rules into “groups“ so that all controls within that group fire or don't fire.

• Building workflow on a page using the new asp:Wizard control.  Handle next/back, step1->n workflows easily now (no funky state management tricks for controls required).

Transit strike in LA - since public transport has come to a standstill, no there are no leaves on the tracks , cabs are probably more problematic to get aswell.