Now that the book's quieted down, I have more time to do things like code, read, drink wine, eat, and sleep. In that order.

And I've changed roles at Microsoft to focus entirely on concurrency.

I'm wrapping up development on some C++ code I wrote for an upcoming MSDN article. I also intend to spend quite a bit of time over the holiday finishing up another project that has really tested my thinking and coding skills. I love stuff like that. When carefully and intentionally crafted code must play nicely with the topology of the underlying machine. I have a presentation to the C# Design Team in late January to show 'em what I got, so I need to get these ideas down into code and optimized ASAP.

I've also become quite hooked on the sweet sounds of System of a Down. My 5 Top Played bands in iTunes right now are (in order): System of a Down, Ill Nino, Mudvayne, Machine Head, and Misfits. I've also been playing a bit more guitar lately, recording a little, but not being overly happy with the end result. Someday.

By the way, if you want to buy me any books, here's a condensed Wish List:

	DEC is Dead, Long Live DEC: The Lasting Legacy of Digital Equipment Corporation -- Edgar H. Schein		The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture -- John Battelle
	Parallel Computer Architecture: A Hardware/Software Approach -- David Culler, J.P. Singh, Anoop Gupta		Transaction Processing: Concepts and Techniques -- Jim Gray, Andreas Reuter
	Transactional Information Systems: Theory, Algorithms, and the Practice of Concurrency Control -- Gerhard Weikum, Gottfried Vossen		Principles of Transaction Processing -- Philip A. Bernstein, Eric Newcomer

Interestingly, a number of those authors currently work at Microsoft.

Have a happy holidays everybody.