Other companies have much talked about 20% time... That sounds great to me! Here at Microsoft (at least in my group) we do too, kinda. I find that every one of my peers has some interesting project that they're working on outside of their normal work activities, some of the categories for people I know of on the CLR are:

- pet projects related to the product (in this case CLR) which they are prototyping in the hope of getting some traction i