Ben Curry (SharePoint MVP extraordinaire, CISSP, MCT, MCP and all-around great guy) asked me to help contribute to this book (scheduled to now be out on July 4th) and let me tell you, what a learning experience this was.  It was my first foray into the realm of publishing and it was a lot of work for something relatively small (in terms of amount of pages that I was responsible for) and while it took up a ton of time (as you could tell from my lack of recent blog posts) it was an exceptional learning experience.  My contribution was the My Sites / User Profiles chapter and while it's a bit of a what/how-to, there are a couple "whys" thrown in there as well.  I'm really looking forward to checking out the finished product.

Big/huge thanks again to Ben for letting me help out on this! - M

Amazon link to Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Administrator's Pocket Consultant