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I've been experiencing one of those periods lately where I've been really productive, I liken it to cricket when a batsmen is in good form. A number of factors have contributed to this, things like Tech-Ed and the fact that I have had a number of deliverables due. Just like cricket I think you go through periods where your form can slump when the conditions around you stay the same. You might still have lots of things going on around you but for what ever reason you just can't seem to clear them.

Tech-Ed was a big influencer in my recent good form, I had the same effect from the Tech-ed previously, its really good to interact with a bunch of passionate people. Now it seems that I wake up in the morning keen to get into some code, the funny thing as well about being in form is that the solutions you come up with often leave you wondering where they came from (in a good way). 

I haven't had any problems using Vista, its been rock solid on all the laptops that we have. The one thing that really annoys me is the auto update. Well its not the auto update so much, see we usually sleep with two of our laptop in standby in our bedroom. However once a month, these laptops will come alive in the middle of the night and apply the updates and restart. So in the dead quiet of the night you will hear the sound of Vista starting up (it wakes you up in fright, I must say). Worse still, because the laptop lid is closed, the computer will sit at the login prompt until is is due to power down (which was up to an hour). Being cold and lazy I really couldn't be bothered getting up to open and close the lid, also both laptops never seem to update on the same night, so this past week I've been woken up twice by the sound of booting laptops.

Macpomme left a comment about how the family.show application would make a fantastic web sharing application. Well it turns out this has already been created, its called Geni. Jeff Attwood at codinghorror.com has also spoken about this application for the brilliant way that it avoids the login barrier. I recommend having a look at this site, before you know it you will have added your family tree.