My “dog” David White started a blog. And he blames me for “shaming” him into doing it. That’s a first – I’ve never shamed anyone into doing anything. I’m not sure I really shamed David – “pestered” may be a better term.

The last session I went to @ PDC on Wed was on Building Media Center Applications (PPT). You can download the MCE SDK from the MCE Developer Center which isn’t on MSDN (go figure).

In the space of a week and a half: my battery bay was damaged, my screen was damaged, and my external HD with all my backups on it came within a hair’s breadth of going belly up. Luckily, on that last one, a few reboots and XP was able to piece everything back together again. So I backed up my backup and now am going to make a copy of the backed-up backup on CDR. Given that the XP built-in backup utility has no support for CDR, I need a decent personal backup utility. Any suggestions?