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I’ve just started a new blog over at the Vista Squad user group. Its called Non-Destructive Me and will focus mainly on WPF and branching out into other .NET technologies, so hop on over and subscribe!
Pretty sweet news in my opinion. In the work item that they’ve written up, it states that a SVN to TFS bridge has been written. Offline support has always been one of the most highly requested features of Codeplex and this will really get more people over to the platform.
Phil Haack has a great write up here.
Vista Squad has their 2nd meeting tomorrow at Microsoft’s TVP campus. We’re covering two topics this time, Bitlocker and WPF. Steve Lamb will be presenting the Bitlocker presentation with yours truely showing off WPF.
Hope you can make it! 
Moving on from the previous post around the problems I’ve had with Mozy and their encryption, I thought it would be fair on them to post my experiences further on down the road.
To recap, my files I had uploaded to Mozy refused to decrypt using the exact key I had specified when I uploaded them to their servers. To my delight, the support provided by Mozy was exemplary. Chuck in particular walked me through every avenue possible to retrieve my files and was extremely helpful.
Unfortunately, I was coming up to the end of the month when they would charge me again and already having decided to move away from Mozy, I closed the account before the next month’s fee came off my card.
So moving on, Amazon announced a fee reduction in their S3 service. Fantastic news as this means the monthly price for around 30GB worth of my data is approximately $4 which is impressive. There have been blog posts regarding the speed outside of the US but I don’t see this being a problem as it is more of a store than a file provider.
Once the 1st of June arrives (price drop occurs then) I’ll be uploading my data and see how it works out.
The next Vista Squad meeting is confirmed
All your favourite superheroes will be in attendance. In addition we have two guest heroes sharing their superpowers on WPF and Vista’s BitLocker feature.
Date: 24th May 2007
Time: 5.30pm onwards
Location: Microsoft UK HQ, TVP, Reading, Building 3
Room: Memphis
Agenda:
6.15pm - 6.30pm Introduction
6.30pm - 7.20pm BitLocker presented by Stephen Lamb
7.20pm - 7.30pm BitLocker Q&A
7.30pm - 8.30pm Food and Networking
8.30pm - 9.20pm Introduction to WPF presented by yours truly
9.20pm - 9.30pm WPF Q&A
See you there!