I don't add folks to my blogroll very often, and the traffic my links might provide wouldn't really add up to a hill of beans for anyone who is represented. Even so, I believe the people I keep here on a permanent basis should be those who are reputable sources of information you can trust.

Therefore, I'm happy to welcome the following folks to my blogroll...

Aaron Stebner -- Aaron is doing a wonderful job helping the community with Emerald install and media playback issues. His mastery of all things setup is fantastic and he has personally helped me on more than one occasion with Visual Studio and partner machine setups. The great thing about Aaron: He is 10 times more helpful in person than he is on his blog, and is one of the most positive people I have ever met. Aaron and I are going to have the pleasure of working closer together over the coming year as we march closer to the launch of Media Center for Windows Vista. Stay tuned.

David Fleischman -- David is one of those great guys who helps us get software actually out the door and into your hands. Software impacting millions of customers doesn't happen overnight, and his latest post Adding a Feature to Media Center gives you some great insight into that process.  The comments in that post are worth their weight in gold if you play a part in shipping great software.

Ed Bott -- I've had the pleasure of having lunch with Ed once, and it was refreshing -- for someone so smart, he's about as humble and unassuming as they come. His blog is one of the most informative and authoritative ones out there -- you come away satisfied with almost every post he makes. I consider his taking the time to create a Media Center specific feed quite a compliment to our product. I aspire to have my own writing be as concise and clear as his -- I've got a long way to go. I have no idea why it has taken me so long to add him to my list -- he should have been there on day one.

Peter Rosser -- I'll confess I don't know Peter well at all, which kind of means I'm breaking the rule I outline in my opening paragraph. His office is between mine and the front door / cafeteria / rest rooms, so I pass by it a good bit. His monitor is always filled with code, and he is almost always sitting there intently focused on same. He is a Software Design Engineer on our Media Center TV team -- that means he is wicked smart (all of them are - you have to be if you are going to get TV working in Windows). Seriously, anyone who writes code like this has to be a wiz. I only hope the code I write is 1/100th as sharp. As it is, I'm still trying to figure out what his blog title means -- I think it has something to do with the Da Vinci Code.