Just saw this over on Japers’ Rink and had to share. This video won a three 2007 Golden Matrix award from the Information and Display and Entertainment Association (IDEA): Best Music Video, Best Overall Video Display (hockey) and Best Overall Video Display (overall). More details on Kukla’s Korner. Congrats to the Caps PR team.

Next season is only a little under three months away. Given the moves the Caps have made this off season, next season should be a sight better than last season. Playoffs? Maybe. Contending for playoffs? Probably? Cup Contenders? Check back in a couple more years!

• In doing a little LINQ research, I stumbled upon Wes Dyer’s Yet Another Language Geek blog. Fascinating stuff. Subscribed. Be sure to check out his recent posts about Partial Methods, another new C# 3.0 (and VB9) language feature.
• Werner Vogles has a great post on what a CTO does, including a summary of four different approaches to the job.
• Somasegar lets us know that even though VS08 doesn’t launch until February of next year, MSFT is “still aiming to release Visual Studio 2008 and .NET FX 3.5 by the end of this year”.
• There’s a new version of the Windows Live Mobile Search client. The Virtual Earth / Live Search team blog has the details. New features include Movie Showtimes, More Local Data with Reviews and improved Maps and Directions (including GPS integration). Can’t wait to get this installed. (via Dare Obasanjo)
• XNA Gamefest is coming up next month. It’s sort of like PDC for game developers. It’s where we make our big game dev announcements – last year, we announced XNA GSE there. They recently published their session abstracts, including a whole track on XNA Game Studio Express. As Shawn Hargreaves points out, an “enterprising reader could probably make a good guess” about some of the new stuff getting announced @ Gamefest.