I've had a couple of inquiries over the last week, to which my response rate was rather sluggish. I was in Seattle attending TechReady 5, a Microsoft internal event similar to TechEd. Since all content is MS confidential, I cannot really say anything about it here. But I sure had a heck of a time listening and talking to .NET luminaries like Scott Guthrie, Pat Helland, Justin Smith, Anson Horton, or Greg Leake (who's just creating some major buzz with .NET StockTrader).