What is this is see? .NET bloggers ga-freakin-lore! The more the merrier I say.  Kudos to http://www.dotnetweblogs.com/ for lowering the barrier (read:Radio) to entry!

I spy my friend and former colleague Ben Hickman (rss subscribed) who opens with a florish, an elegant solution for mapping custom roles/groups to authenticated Windows users in ASP.NET.  I know I will use this code!  Hello to Ben and Shaun McAravey over at SoftSource Consulting.  Shaun, you never call me!

Christian Weyer, fellow RD, is up chatting about Web Services and .NET and has a cool thought about precompiling ASP.NET pages via his HTTPModule

Also, Shawn Van Ness (of Reggie fame, amongst other great acheivements) has a blog up there as well. Snazzy.

I don't recommend software lightly.  Some of my "must-installs" when I build a fresh machine are, of course, Anti-Virus software like eTrust, Panda or Norton and ZoneLabs' ZoneAlarm a MUST-HAVE software firewall

To this list, I add AdAware 6.0 (free!) .  It's a much improved version of AdAware 5.3, and includes automatic reference file updating. 

Simply put, AdAware detects and yanks SPYWARE including tracking cookies from such evil bastards as DoubleClick and Gator. You will be SURPRISED the crap that can get on even a savvy user's box.

Remember my friends, Scott's C.Y.A. 1-2-3:

1. AntiVirus Software to protect against evil software written by evil people to do evil
2. Firewall Software to protect against evil people with evil software trying to get your computer to do evil
3. AdAware to protect against quasi-evil marketing people with potentially-evil data-mining spy-software trying to collect personal data on the evil that I do on my personal computer in my personal time for my personal reasons