I love reading Rick's blog. He's a really smart and innovative guy who has been working with .net for a long time. He is writing applications and also experimenting and his weblog talks about some of the hurdles he runs into while trying to write software and how he gets around them. Very practical, very engaging and educational. Rick lives in Hawaii. I'm always waiting for some surfing pictures! I have fun emailing him once in a while to tell him the temperature - like when it's 20 below (F). It's pretty funny going to a conference and hanging out with Rick from Hawaii and Don Kiely from Alaska.