Your sig says you're a software engineer.  Are you with one of the fun design-type companies downtown or a weed in one of the Intel farms?
 
(I've contracted to both.  ;-)

Hahaha..
I'm a weed in one of the Intel farms... Hawthorn farms to be exact.


What did you do for Intel?

You know that area where you can auto-tune multiple cores?  I did the speedometer graphics using Expression Blend, custom XAML and some C#.

Nice, but no, I don't know what you're talking about. I'm rather far away from the core business. All the stuff I work on is more sales and marketing focused.   

Evidentally, it's a utility that comes with every motherboard that can be run by the end-user to setup their PC for different uses.

What do they have you doing?

Web stuff, lots of database stuff. Moving data from one system to another.  Right now I'm currently working with the Adobe Flex platform. We have a sales app that gets data from an SAP system.  It was written in Adobe Flex so it could run in multiple platforms.   I really like it, it's great technology, however, it would appear as though it's going to come to a very slow death as HTML 5 begins to mature. 

Yep, 'tis the nature of IT right now.  Everyone wants an employee who's a specialist with five years of experience (and a bunch of expensive certificates), then what they know becomes obsolete...

I have a cool T-shirt that announces, in day-glo orange lettering, the coming release of the amazing 486. I also have a (somewhat used) first edition 8008 Programmer's Guide. So can I be in your club too?

hahaha... Man... The 486 was my first computer. I jumped onboard late. In fact, I wanted nothing to do with them at first. I was in college taking drafting courses, I was going to be a die hard manual pencil draftsman until the day I died. I was oldschool minded.  Then I finally got to a point where I was FORCED to take my first AutoCAD class. I instantly fell in love. So, I went from hating computers to wanting to become a game programmer overnight.  I was about 3/4 done with my drafting degree, up and changed it to software engineering... Rest is history.  If I had only known, I would have stayed a draftsmen.  I get tired of chasing technology around. It's got to be as bad as being a doctor.

I wouldn't mind getting back into C++ programming so I could start making some VSTs and or apps that can dig into Sonar like what ( hmmm, forget the guys name here on the board ) that one guy did with his app that allows you to modify colors in Sonar.