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It's a balmy 8 degrees out there this morning. That's without the windchill. Yeck. The cheery news is I am finally going someplace warm, West Palm Beach FL 2/25/2004 for INETA.

• Drew has some interesting thoughts (based on a Don example) that XAML has use writing code that has nothing to do with Avalon and Longhorn and is actually much easier to grok in that way, and should be decoupled from Longhorn. I'm inclined to agree as does Don. Don is wondering what other ideas people may have besides stiching together documents.
• A fantastic article on the MSDN Security site: EncryptTo/DecryptTo: Encrypyion in .NET with CryptoAPI Certificate Stores
• If you haven't seen it already, Ian Griffiths did a fantastic piece for O'Reilly's OnDotnet last month, WinFx: An All Managed API. Fantastic piece.  
• MSDN TV: Code Correctness with FxCop [via Duncan]
• Microsoft EMEA Architect’s JOURNAL [via Clemens]
• Microsoft on Friday issued a hotfix aimed at distributed queries that may incorrectly use SQL Server startup account permissions when SQL Server 2000 is running in Fiber Mode. Distributed queries with a linked server may use the SQL Server startup for making a connection to the linked server rather than the configured linked server account, specified by the sp_addlinkedsrvlogin stored procedure, noted officials from Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft Corp.
• Benjamin: More on the Microsoft Messenging Message