If you are a lucky MSDN Universal subscriber then you can get Expression Encoder (released yesterday with Silverlight 1.0) for free. How ?

Juts use the key you have for Expression Studio delivered on MSDN Subscriber Downloads, on the page Subscription Product Keys.

Jon made a great post about easier VPN usage.

Easier VPN connections from a Windows desktop - Jon Galloway

Silverlight is now available in final release 1.0, you might download it right now.

The bonus part is the application developed by my brother Mathieu for Discovery Channel shows up on the Silverlight website as one of the show case.

This is a video demonstrating the offline usage of the Tech Head Brothers authoring tool.

The tool is using now WCF in place of WSE3 and works great with ASP.NET membership and role.