It just struck me that I have noticed mentions of and pointers to Mary Jo Foley and Microsoft Watch a lot lately from a variety of the blogs that I read (ooh now I can show you my real blog roll, btw). It’s interesting to me. I imagine there are people who just always see someone in her position as someone to “watch out for”, but it’s looking to me like she is being embraced by this blogging community. 

As I was sitting in Pat Hynds phenomenal presentation on ASP.NET Security at VTdotNET last Monday, I started thinking about how people work SO hard to secure websites with password protection but then almost every website will email you your login and password. If we spend so much time worrying about people “hopping on” to authenticated HTTP transports, don’t those same people have the ability to read/grab/reroute our emails? Maybe the answer is “no” and everything is still right with the world, but it sure did make me wonder.

Hey – I just had an idea (probably not the least bit novel). When I register for a Microsoft event, and I get an email confirmation, it would be nice if it could attach one of those little Outlook calendar do-hicky things that when I click on it automatically pops the event into my calendar.

I just registered for the Reporting Services launch webcast (which is on Jan 27th). I had to fill out a form to register. Last week, I registered for one of the webcasts that is part of this week’s ASP.NET Webcast Week. It knew who I was, because it popped my email in there, but I still ahd to fill out the form. Whassup with that? What happened to Passport?