Eli Robillard's World of Blog.

Dmitri Safine is one of our fantastic team members at ei :: eidenai innovations, and he's doing a presentation on the BizTalk Rules Engine at the BizTalk Users Group in Toronto next Tuesday. He knows his stuff, it should be a great session. You can read more and register here:

Today BillG publicly announced MOSS B2 at WinHEC, along with Vista Beta 2 (wow, nice page!) and a slew of virtualization goodies. And with that, the servers in Redmond sprang to life and bits flew across the land.

In this morning's session, one of the questions that BillG could have answered better was about cross-browser support. Simply put, it's not that strong in SPS / WSS 2003, and every admin with Mac or public clients to support wants to know what will be different.

I'm writing today from the Meydenbauer Conference Center in sunny Bellevue, Washington. Bill Gates just gave the keynote, and as always he was fascinating, a few cool demos were shown, there was a touch of revisionist history, and it gave everyone an aspect to think about.

Tonight's Toronto SharePoint Users Group meeting will feature the Business Scorecard Manager:

Ameet Phandis wrote a terrific article on writing custom site definitions that somehow slipped under the radar when it was published on ASPAlliance in January. In the article, Ameet copies an SPS definition (SPSTOC) as his starting point, most articles use STS to begin. Nice work!

Register at: http://www.tspug.com/

I downloaded an alarm clock last night to wake me up this morning, and then my computer went to sleep. I guess I need to download something else to wake the computer.