Couple things going on.. I'm sure everyone has seen Monad beta 1 has been released. Those that don't know, Monad is this way cool shell that MS has been working on that could replace cmd.exe. Monad was slated for the longhorn timeframe. Now it seems it's going to be part of winfx, which might have a different delivery schedule, but might not, but I digress. Either way, beta1 is now available, and I've installed it. I haven't done a whole lot with it yet, but hopefully will. I sat through a (very packed) demo at teched, and was of course blown away. Even the slashdotters are throwing Monad praise.

Scott Hanselman has updated his list of ultimate tools, and it's quite an update. 2005 brings lots of new products and categories to the list, but one stuck out more then others to me. del.icio.us. I'm a big fan of del.icio.us, and it's great to see an industry icon like Hanselman use, and promote it. I've definitely added a livebookmark to his del.icio.us feed, as well as a few others I like to catch up on every so often.

If you have an xbox, and haven't gotten san andreas yet, go now. Now. Just walk out of work, and go. You may get fired, but thats ok, once you get San Andreas, you really won't need anything else. It's like crack. I spent way to much time this weekend trying to break into one of the next cities. So much, that I didn't even type word one in my teched recap ;) Soon.. soon....