Yes I am alive. I must apologise (or apologize as the Americans say) for my lack of recent blog posts. Things have been rather hectic at work with a new (short term) assignment I've been handed. Our team's 'complete mission' is still officially a secret - but not for much longer.

I am planning on spending some more time with Silverlight Beta 2 in the next few weeks. I tried some stuff out last week and I didn't like what I saw (missing methods on System.Collections.ObjectModel.ObservableCollection being one example). Silverlight seems great for rich media websites - but I'm still doubting it's ability to build line of business applications (at least for version 2.0).

Turning to the front lines of the re-ignited browser wars: I'm running IE Beta 2 and I like it. It may actually convert me from Safari (my personal browser of choice). Great work by the IE team and I applaud their courage in including 'InPrivate' (it will cause a serious disruption in the on-line advertising industry).

If you haven't tried Mesh yet then you are missing out. Awesome. Trust me: it is only going get even better.