Can you believe that this blog has been in existence for more than 2 years??  How time flies.  And what better way to celebrate this two-year anniversary than by...

GOING ON HOLIDAY!

That's right, my laptop and I will be going on "blogging vacation" until sometime between January 14th and January 21st, 2008.  When I make my courageous, triumphant return you can look forward to:

• the long-awaited, oft-demanded return of Hot Developer Corner!
• the remainder of the reviews from my "Become a Better Developer in 6 months" list
• speaking of goals, whatever happened to this promise? 
  
• the complete retraction of an earlier post!!  Yes, that's right, public admission that I was on the wrong end of a debate
• my grandmother and the Model-View-Controller pattern
• an impassioned defense that will no doubt lead to yet another religious war in software development
• my review of a recent Agile book, and how this ties into learning to talk like a normal human being
• my public endorsement of various people for the Microsoft MVP program, which will probably result in them all being blacklisted for life
• the revelation of what it is I actually *do* (finally, a response to Ben Schierman's post)
  
• an open letter to INETA
• a call to arms for all software developers

and finally, while I don't want to get anyone too excited, there is a *slight* possibility that in January you will be witness to the beginnings of the single greatest confrontation of 2008. 

"But it's barely even January!" 

Trust me, I know. 

I know. 

Next: how you can be part of the greatest year in Gray's Matter history!