All good things (hopefully) come to an end...

Well the PDC Blogging Contest is over now and we're all waiting with baited breath on who the lucky ones will be. Like Charlie Bucket, I didn't get the hundreds of referrals as others did as I haven't been in the blog'o'sphere for very long (only a couple of years) and still need to win the hearts of millions. In any case I will still be at PDC (plane tickets are done and hotel is in the bag) and I still promise to blog several times a day on SharePoint V3 with pics (assuming I'm sober and able to operate the digital camera and the computer, no easy feat) and whatever other goodies I can uncover and reveal to you, true believer.

This week is a little nuts so if I'm absent (or my posts seem like mindless incoherent rants, even more so than normal) just bear with me. I'm down to the (hopefully) final hours of my living hell that I've been in (a project that keeps adding new requirements and budget to itself everytime you look at it) and it's driving me bonkers. Of course "hours" on a project like this probably means a few weeks/months so I'm looking to escaping for a week at PDC that much more. Yes, I'll be going on a technology bender that week probably buying everyone iPods if they'll be my friend and coding Web Parts for food.

Here's a backlog of some stuff on my TOBLOG list and project work I have in the hopper that you can watch for:

• SharePoint V3 and Office 12 Blogging (stuff that I can reveal and whatever is blown out at PDC)
• SharePoint Template Project updates (have a few templates in the wings now so I'll be getting in touch with you guys shortly with the installer)
• Have to update my woefully outdated SharePoint wrappers soon as there are a few people that need it for some remote admin tools they want to build (the current Wrappers don't provide hooks into the admin services, not that there are very many to use)
• A few blog postings with little config and coding tips that have accumlated the last few weeks

Also three special things underway on my side of the world:

1. A cool new SharePoint project that I've been picking at for the last while which should help custom Web Part developers (if you're into the self-multilating way of building Web Parts from scratch like I am).
2. Another uber-cool project that's starting up with some other MVPs and Microsquishy guys (think podcasting even if it is so 2005)
3. Some book projects are underway that I'm contributing to at various levels, all SharePoint related (of course)

Yeah, lots of cats that I'm juggling right now (not to mention my new laptop that just kicks and my new Mac mini that kicks the laptop even more, it's pure electricity-draining-techno-heaven at my house right now).