Vanity in the CloudS: Putting my head up in Microsoft's cloud

As we previous discussed, I decided to do a vanity page in the clouds, but what should it look like?

I believe that there are two types of programmers: Those that make the front look awesome and those that make the pluming work. I am one of that latter types.

So I thought, I'll creatively find something that my visual creativity wouldn't have come up with in a million years. I'll search through people I admire and find a site that has a couple of attributes:

1) Looks awesome
2) Has some complexity (or easily could add some)
3) is someone that I admire

The one that I found I like the best (and was able to secure permission to outright steal the look and feel) belongs to David Bressler, a technology evangelist of progress. When I worked for the state, Progress impressed me with their Actional product. In fact, I will be starting another blog soon about developing the Actional product to be used in creating an internal cloud.

Now, your probably thinking: "A vanity page?" What's the big deal that's just a bunch of html or xaml or flash. How can you show the background pluming, the enterprise service bus capabilities?

Great question. I plan on making this page more and more complex as it goes along. But to start out, I plan on creating a service that will use the Azure storage to hold copies of my posts that will be vetted through a workflow and fix the spelling of the word RESTfarian which I will deliberately misspell on all of my posts, but will be corrected on the vanity page.

As well, I will not use an RSS feed on the UI itself, but retrieve from storage.

Lastly, I will indicate my presence through Microsoft Live services.

Any other thoughts to make this an interesting, but doable challenge?

Does anyone else know of anyone who has their vanity page in the cloud?