It's like winning the lottery today! You get two new blog posts! Last week I put together a list of folks who sell their handcrafted items or art online, to send around internally in preparation for the holidays. Obviously it's getting late for holiday...

I had intentions of posting here at least weekly. I even have a reminder in my Outlook calendar to tell me to blog. It's just so easy to ignore it. But I've been ruminating on this blog post for a few weeks, and now that I have several items to blog about...

I've conducted a lot of interviews lately, because we have some open positions on our team. And at my previous job, I was also involved in hiring and reviewed tons and tons of resumes from a Craigslist posting. I've done lots of phone screens and in-person...

Work has been pretty hectic for the past few weeks (months?), what with coming back to a new role, and some major deadlines. It didn't leave much time for frivolous activities like blogging. But now I'm back and I'll try to post at least weekly, because...

Hmm, so that was a quick detour. I'm back at Microsoft, as a Sr. Program Manager in the Server and Tools Division, and hope to continue blogging here. I just started this week, though, so I haven't really discussed it with my new manager yet. But I...

I'm leaving Microsoft to work for a startup, after nearly 5 years here. I'll be a Technical Project Manager at Mercent , starting in mid-July. Next week is my last week here. Microsoft has been a great place for me to build my career - I spent more...

For a day off, today was pretty productive in terms of my career. Or at least for my career planning anyway. One of the things I've been meaning to do for a while is get my Project Management Professional (PMP) certification. I've been doing various...

Marshall , who I met through the Speech Server TAP program, has bugged me about my dormant blog a few times now, so here I am with a new post for you. It's embarassing how long it's been since I last posted. Especially since I include a link to this blog...

Our Thanksgiving trip to Tucson was very nice. My husband and I drove back to Seattle, which I had anticipated to be a nice leisurely drive, but turned into a "let's just get home", boring freeway, 12-15 hours a day sort of road trip. On the bright side...

I am just getting ready to leave the office to take care of some last minute items before leaving for Tucson early tomorrow. I thought I'd write a quick blog post since it's been a few weeks since the last one. I'm slowing ramping up on SMS 2003, and...

Well, I'm at the end of my last day of work for the week. So far, this part time thing is working out great :) So what did I accomplish this week? Met a bunch of people on the team (super-important for a PM), got through a few modules of an online...

I guess it's pretty clear that I'm just getting settled into my new job, since I've actually had time to post to my blog two days in a row! Late yesterday, my stuff got moved over from Bldg 17, so my office-mate/job-share partner and I tried to figure...

I woke up this morning at 6:15 without an alarm and actually got out of bed and was ready for work by 7:15. What's going on here? It's my first day of work at the new job! Now that I'm in Building 44, my commute to work has almost doubled. It might...

I guess I'm on the "every other month" posting schedule here. Maybe that's just the natural rhythm of things and I shouldn't feel bad about it. Then again, just this week, two of my TAP partners asked me if I was planning to blog more often. And the answer...

Yikes. Yet again, I've waited too long to post to my blog. I can't believe it's been 2 months!! I actually have a real speech-related topic this time, though. Last week, I went to the 5-day course called " Speech Applications: Planning, Voice User...

I've got a bad 80s heavy metal song in my head, and I can't even find out what it is either via MSN Search or Google. Oh well, I suppose I have more important things to do. Well, it's review time again here at Microsoft. As you'll see on many other...

Woo hoo! The TAP Beta training started today and we have about 60 customers and partners in town for this event, most of whom are in our TAP or ISV programs. I think they are interested in the presentations, judging by the number of questions our presenters...

No one likes a stale blog, so I'm sitting in my kitchen at 8pm with a glass of wine trying to find inspiration. Fortunately, this time it's not too difficult. On Monday we issued a Press Release announcing the availability of our Beta . It reveals some...

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2006/apr06/04-05MSS07BetaPR.mspx More later - now, I need to get dressed for work. But it's pretty neat that the product we've been working on for many months now is no longer a "secret". Your thoughts?

I won't be lame and apologize for not posting more often, because that would probably be the standard preface for every blog entry. (But you know I'm thinking it.) I went on vacation to Oahu, in Hawaii this month for 10 lovely days. It's the longest...

Whew! I can't believe it's already Friday. It's usually a good week when it goes by that quickly. I'm making no progress on my Email Inbox Containment Project. I'm still at 150 emails, and sadly, none of those are junk or things I can file away into the...

Hey! It's my first post actually related to Microsoft Speech Server. Actually, that's not true - one of my earlier posts was about a slew of MSS KB articles we published in July. Last week, Kevin, one of the awesome Product Managers on our team, presented...

I'm not a huge football fan, but on Feb 4, my allegiance will be sorely tested. The Seattle Seahawks will play the Pittsburgh Steelers in American football . (Just thought I'd explain in case any of my European customers are reading this!) I've lived...

Hello again! I celebrated the New Year in grand style, sick in bed for a whole week. What a bummer. I even missed a fun party at Nathalie's house. Nathalie is our fabulous Release Manager, who keeps us all on track by managing the overall project schedule...

Thanks to Zhan, who is an awesome troubleshooter, for letting me know it was better to use CBR (constant bit rate) rather than VBR (variable bit rate) to compress the file. That worked fine. And the new file size is about 20% of the original. After another...