Whenever comparing geek-cred, I mention that I've received personal email responses from Larry Wall and Guido Von Rossum.

What's the most famous person/people you've exchanged email with? Steve, Bill, Linus, Bjarne?

P.S. I use Perl every day at work. Thank you.

One: is M$ still selling XBox's (console hardware support)? Yes, and they plan to continue through the end of the year (at least).

Two: is M$ producing new software titles (console software support) for the XBox? No, the rep says in a nice way that the first party titles have to be ground breaking and genre defining (meaning: our work is done here, time to work on the 360) and then talks up the third party stuff, the 200 titles.