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It is dangerously cold here. The temperature reading four degrees with wind chills into the minus degrees. It is supposed to be -20 degrees for the Patriots playoff game Saturday night. Methinks I picked the wrong game to start my football fan career off with. So while scrambling to keep warm....

• My favorite news aggregator and indispensible tool, NewsGator is getting some pretty impressive new features in 2.0 to a product that is already my most used desktop app. Brad has a good analysis of the features here so I won't repeat them but I am excited!
• The venerable CLR Tool FxCop now has a team blog with an excellent first post on Code Analysis of Microsoft Assemblies
• A link to remind myself: Jeff Key has an entry to rid thyself (and myself) of that bloody Win2K3 dialog when you try to shut down or restart for good.
• By now you all know that master WinForms and very funny Brit Ian Griffiths has a blog here,and a feed. Get the feed, the blog is, as Craig says, “ugly-ass“, and I suspect that //TODO: Visual Design is to stop all the teasing-) Ian is one of the smartest people I know and one of my favorite weeks was the oneI got to spend with him at Win-Dev.
• DonXML has a great new article and code on Vector Graphics and Declartive Animation with Longhorn - The Analog Clock.