Honest Illusion

Today, either Bloglines.com or blogs.MSDN.com blinked, and suddenly I'm seeing old entries on the 'C# Frequently Asked Questions' blog as new.  No one has posted anything there in over two years. Anyway, reading the most recent message, it offered a method for logging a message.  Now, ignoring side debates over log4net vs nLog vs. the Event ...

On the third day of the Summit, the MVPs met with the Product teams at Microsoft for whichever product they support.  That means I met with the folks on the C++ Team, who told me all about what's coming up in the next version of Visual Studio.  In other words, I was told a lot of things which I can't tell you, by people who's names you won't ...

Robert Scoble claims the Honest Illusion is one of the 1400 blogs he reads daily.  We'll just have to see about that....  So, Robert, if you're reading this, you can just leave a comment right there  --v 

Today was the Executive day at the Summit.... Lot's'o'big shots. First up was Lori Moore, vice president of Product Service Service, ie, the woman who's budget is paying for all this.  She is a rather nice person, and she tries to let he hair down a bit for the MVP summits, but she is, hopelessly, a suit. Eric Rudder & Rich Kaplan (VP of ...

I just left the first day of the MVP Summit. Saw a number of lectures: ASP.Net improvements, Visual Studio IDE improvements, Visual Studio Debugger improvements ( lot's

The real MVP summit starts tomorrow (The first bus leave the hotel at 6:30!!), but today they had the registration at the Washisngton State Cenvention Center.  We went to one room, where they looked up our names, and handed as a bag, and then we went upstairs to a different hall, where there was food and a lot of kiosks where Microsoft showed ...

As I write, I'm in Seattle, at Microsoft's MVP Summit.  Actually, that's not entirely true: I am in Seattle, but I won't officially be at the summit until sometime tomorrow evening when it actually starts.  Right now, I'm just hangin' out in my hotel room, trying to find the location of the Saturday MVP dinner that Scoble alludes

Ok, so, I've been a bit lax about writing this blog.  Hey, it's not like people was hanging around wait for my next report.  We all know this is just for some future researcher writing a biography of me years from now, after I win a Nobel Prize or something. Anyway,  Theater.  I remember on the Weekend of Nov 6th through 9th, I saw 5 plays ...