Welcome to Wintellog

Blogging is so popular these days that it’s hardly news when someone starts a new blog. John Robbins, Jeffrey Richter, and I have resisted blogging because 1) everybody’s doing it, and 2) it seems more than a little vain to assume that others will care what you have to say. Yet people ask us all the time if we have blogs, implying that if we had them, they would read them. So we decided to find out.

Rather than do individual blogs, we decided to start a joint blog called Wintellog. John, Jeffrey, and I will be contributing to it, as will others at Wintellect. We’ll be talking a lot about .NET–especially the upcoming Whidbey release–and probably a lot about other things, too.

I’ve blogged once before. When I wrote my most recent book, I blogged the experience here. I’ll have to admit that I found taking periodic breaks from work to jot down blog entries therapeutic. In fact, once I finished the book and closed the blog, I sort of missed blogging. So here’s to a fresh start, and to finding out if anyone really does care what we have to say…