Admit when you have no clue.

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/sep08/09-29VS10PR.mspx

Microsoft described the next release through the following five focus areas: riding the next-generation platform wave, inspiring developer delight, powering breakthrough departmental applications, enabling emerging trends such as cloud computing, and democratizing application life-cycle management (ALM).

Well, my delight is certainly inspired :)

Personally, someone deserves kudos for taking the Visual Studio 2010 brief (“make it cool”) and extemporizing a whole paragraph from it.

Pirates ahoy

My fleet is now 63 ships; mostly freighters. My Mk3 traders have been getting good and I had reached 4Mcr again. Time for some more building, but as I’d discover… the X3:TC universe is anything but at rest…