I'm starting to think I am a terrible blogger. It's been months since my last meaningful blog post. I think the biggest reasons for my failure to blog are: 1) no free time anymore, 2) lack of anything interesting to say, 3) too much other writing going on. I'm pretty sure #3 is the real reason I've slacked off in my writing.

As you may already know, we're very close to shipping the next release of Office, and that certainly accounts for the lack of free time. The last couple of weeks have been intensely busy often working 10 hours a day. On top of trying to ship this release, I've been brainstorming around what we can do for the next release of Office, working on a couple of side projects, and coordinating efforts with other teams (BCM, VSTO, UM, etc) to make sure everyone is ready for the release and that we're delivering a high quality release.

On the #3 front, I've got my MSDN blog which keeps most of my blogging skills busy with the one or so posts I make a month, plus I'm working on co-authoring a new book on Outlook programmability which is really draining my ability to write for anything else. After churning out 4 chapters so far (2 more to go), I can understand why writing a book is such a difficult task to accomplish. I can't wait until this project is complete.

Someday soon I need to blog about my new gadgets as well. I'm still in love with my Treo 700wx. In addition to upgrading to the coolest phone ever, I've recently rebuild my desktop computer, which now features a Core 2 Duo processor, a Dell 2407WFP display, and the latest builds of Windows Vista. It's a sweet sweet machine, but building it wasn't so great. I have a story to tell, and hopefully I can tell it soon!

More to come soon, I promise.