Two new architect bloggers to report. Javed Sikander is an architect on the Architecture Strategy Team focusing on RFID. He links to a pair of articles about Microsoft and RFID plus provides his thoughts on why RFID is a big deal. David Solivan is an architect advisor and an ex-teammate from my old .NET Adoption Team days. So far, David appears to be blogging at conferences. He started in July at MGB and then went dark for a few months. He picked back up at SAF. I hear he’s at a conference this week, so maybe we’ll see some more from him.

That brings the total number of bloggers from my team to 14. That’s over half of the team and I know at least two more coming down the pipe.

I hadn’t realized how cool the Halo 2 stats site on bungie.net is until Scott blogged it . This really brings the online experience to a new level. It’s so cool, that I had to create a new flair for my blog linking to my stats page (I also put up a link to my games RSS feed). Granted, my stats so far are pretty lame – I’ve only played one multiplayer game so far and I came in 5th. (I did spend most of last night playing the campain.) Maybe the public nature of the stats will drive me to improve them. I haven’t joined a clan yet, but when I do I’ll create a flair for that too.

The coolest thing about this is that it sets a new bar for online experience. ESPN Video Games and EA Sports are nowhere near this level of detail, but I imagine they are taking notice.