Thanks to Aaron Stebner's post, I was able to easily get Visual Studio .NET 2005 to provide IntelliSense (based on XSD) for custom XML files. The best approach seems to be dropping a new schema catalog file along with the referenced XSD file(s) into the %VsInstallDir%/xml/schemas/ directory. It appears that VS monitors this directory for changes. This approach is nice because it doesn't involve updating any of the default VS installation.

Anders has a good article on how to exclude generated .NET code from code coverage analysis using a tool called IL Merge.  This solution apparently is not supported in VB.NET.

Wow!  This year's BCS championship Rose Bowl game was one of the best I've seen in a while!  Flashbacks to FSU's Charlie Ward in the early nineties came to mind as I watched Texas' Vince Young tear it up and almost single-handedly beat the Trojans.  If you like football, that was a great one!

Check out the new "Bird's Eye" photography in the new beta of Windows Live Local.  The resolution is amazing and the ability to change the viewing angle is very cool.  It seems like the drag/drop functionality should automatically move to the next frame, but it is still in beta afterall.  Ah...home sweet home!

Finally, someone got it right...

Since I typically spend most of my time during the day on a computer and I spent time in college studying the field of ergonomics, I'm naturally a big fan of ergonomic keyboards.  I bought an ergonomic keyboard from CompUSA about 6 years ago that I really liked...of course 6 years later when the time to replace the keyboard is long past overdue, I surprisingly had a lot of trouble finding an ergonomic keyboard that I liked with all of the keys in the correct places.  Instead of retraining my hands to adjust to new key placements, I held out for one that was comfortable and used all the standards, and I'm glad I did.  I've been using Microsoft's new Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 for a couple of weeks now and I must say that I'm impressed.  It's got a soft wristpad and a bunch of keys at the top that I probably won't use but overall I really like it.