I can't tell you how much I loved Doom. I've probably played all of the Doom games back-to-back all the way through a half a dozen times over the last decade. And I was so excited about Doom 3, but David’s right: Star Wars is to Phantom Menace as Doom 1 is to Doom 3: much prettier but much less fun.

DonXML has ported his SVG to XAML conversion tool to the WinHEC build of Longhorn and provides the source as well as the binary on his GotDotNet workspace.

Eventually, we’ll be awash in real tools that output XAML, but until then conversion tools are important so that real artists can use the tools with which they’re already familiar, output them into a vector format supported by that tool and then convert them to XAML for use in Longhorn apps.

Adjunct Professor Aleksey Nudelman for UCLA extension interviews Chris Sells on the history and future of the Windows Forms Programming book, which he uses as the text in his Windows Forms extension course.

If you ignore Rory on IM, you get fun stuff like this:

Rory [Shut up] says:

Hey - are you really away, or are you faking it so that people like me won’t write to you?

Rory [Shut up] says:

Well. I guess you’re really away.

Rory [Shut up] writes:

Rory [Shut up] writes:

Rory [Shut up] writes:

Rory [Shut up] writes:

Rory [Let’s get stinky together]] writes:

“I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.” –Groucho Marx

I must fit into some kind of quota (Windows programmers? Authors? Norwegians? Big, Dopey, White Guys?) for Mensa to let me in…

And don’t forget to steal the new flair, Rory… : )

Peter Stern strikes again, this time with fun XAML t-shirts, coffee mugs and laptop stickers. Ordered.

Here. As I post this, 82 Microsoft employees classify themselves as blogging about Longhorn or Longhorn-related topics. I thought I knew them all, but there are some that were new to me.

Ever since WinXP, I’ve been using Terminal Server a ton. Recently, I’ve been using Virtual PC and when Virtual Server is released, I bet I’ll be using a lot of that, too.

However, as enabling as TS and VPC are, I want more. Instead of logging into a desktop and having the windows trapped on that desktop, I want the windows from a VPC or TS session to just show up on my local desktop, maybe using title bar colors to tell me which ones are running on which machines. I know that X-Windows has provided this for a while, but I want this for Windows. That is all.