The past two months was hectic for me at work but things have started to calm down. It's been great learning about the MSN communications infrastructure and working on the design for our next generation of communications services for end users. Of course, now my extracurricular activities have begun to pile up. Below is a brief list of things I plan to begin and/or complete before the end of the month

• Ship the next release of RSS Bandit.
• Create presentation and demo on MSN communications services (Spaces, Hotmail & Messenger) for my appearance at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference 2005 and the Microsoft Research Social Computing Symposium (if my paper is accepted).  
• Write this month's Extreme XML column on MSDN about Processing XML in the Real World.
• Start work on updating my C# from a Java Developer's Perspective article to acknowledge the changes made in Tiger and Whidbey.
• Write the foreword for a certain upcoming book on RSS & Atom.  

I'm sure there is something I've forgotten from this list. Anyway, I am pretty excited about everything on the above list and even moreso about work especially since most of the extracurricular stuff is related to my day job. I guess that turns the Sex & Cash Theory on its head.