Artificial Ignorance - the Anand Iyer chronicles

I have friends who're getting married all over the place. Some are even having kids. Voluntarily. Weddings are just plain fun. As long as they're not yours, I suppose. I wouldn't know really, because I've mostly had fun at every wedding I've attended...

3 weeks straight on the road... Greeting and meeting people I have never met before, socializing, doing sessions every day starting at 8am, stressing about my football teams, and then doing my regular day job has finally started to take its toll on me...

Sep 12–Sep 16 : PDC PDC was fun, but tiring. Guess who I ran in to and had lunch with at PDC : That's Miguel de Icaza , if you didn’t know… And I'm the 'real real' good looking guy (on the right) <wink> Sep 19–Sep 22 : Oracle Open World...

I’m just devastated by this loss… I mean, I couldn’t be at a lower point in my life. I haven’t slept since. I daydream about us stopping the 2 point conversion, or the kickoff not going out-of-bounds (which in my opinion were...

Everyday I learn something new. So you know we all got copies of Vista Beta 1 at PDC. I could’ve got it before since I work for the company and what not, but I wanted to experience what customers would experience if they were to install the OS in to a...

After every major conference I attend where I'm not speaking very much (MGB, PDC ), I start to dislike my team just a little more. I attended several breakout sessions and keynotes at PDC. And every time I see a speaker get on stage and present, I start...

I'm loving PDC. Its a phenomenal way to learn about not just about what we've been working on at Microsoft, but also to connect with industry partners of ours, and other customers. While the MS events team does just a freakin’ awesome job of putting...

Right, so, I’m no numerologist or anything. I can barely even add. But, there’s one thing I’ve had a close association with all my life, and that, is the number ‘9’. I was born on the 30th of June – 06/30. If you were to add up all the digits in the date...

A few days ago, PRC Compassion was brought to my attention. The website is a portal that can be used to make donations for the relief effort. PRC Compassion has also partnered with several local churches and organizations. Param R., the CTO of Sterling...

People, New MSDN events in the Northern California area have been scheduled for the month of October : Palo Alto, CA on 10/11/2005 Oakland, CA on 10/12/2005 See you there! “AI”

Are ya? If ya are, and your evening schedule has got holes in it, well, don’t fret. I’m gonna be there, and I’m gonna make sure I have as much fun as I possibly can (which shouldn’t be too difficult considering we’re gonna be in LA). So, drop me an...

I read in the news today that Kyle Orton has been slated as the Bears’ new starting QB . While I am tremendously happy for KO, the Bears and all other KO fans in the world, I’m also a wee-bit scared. KO’s got tremendous potential, and with the right coaches...

The last time I got my tires changed was back in, umm, well, I can't remember. I remember going to a store (WalMart), and telling the guy I needed new tires, and about an hour and 45 minutes later, bang, I had new tires. I didn't know how big they were...

You know whose blog I find really interesting, is Heather Leigh's "Marketing & Finance" at Microsoft . She's amusing and funny. Keep it coming Heather! AI

Folks, I’m terribly sorry its taken me so long to do this… I’ve finally managed to zip up all my presentation slides from my SmartClient webcast series . The slide decks are here (~7.6MBs). If you weren’t able to join us for these webcasts live...

Paul is my boss for another 5 days or so before he abandons us and leaves to join Microsoft UK . Paul was one of the main reasons I came to work here at Microsoft. In any case, this is not about me - this is about Paul (who everyone loves). I was in...

Heylo people, I’ll be doing an ASP.NET 2.0 Beta2 talk at an event being hosted by ebig . The thing will be in Pleasanton, CA on 8/25/2005. If you’re not doing anything (or even if you are, drop whatever you are planning on doing and), come on over...

How ironic is it that I feel I need to leave San Francisco and come up to Seattle to soak up some sun? I'm up in the motherland this week... Just thought I'd let you know... You know, just coz... AI

“The University of California at Berkeley is creating an interdisciplinary center for advanced search technologies and is in talks with search giants including Google to join the project, CNET News.com has learned.” http://news.com.com...

Every since I’ve been a little kid, I’ve been a light sleeper. A pin drops in the other side of the world, and I wake up (that is if I ever were to go to sleep in the first place). Typically before any big day, like an event , a big meeting, or a Purdue...

Executives from the MSN Search team will be at the Microsoft Silicon Valley Campus in Mountain View this evening. http://blogs.msdn.com/msnsearch/archive/2005/08/08/449093.aspx If you're not doing much, and wanna find out whats going on, stop by...

What is up with the universe? I’m usually a rather upbeat guy. Fairly happy-go-lucky. It takes a lot of misery, pain or trouble to bring me down. I can’t tell you that I have been happy lately – there’s a lot thats bothering me, and its all bubbled...

At my MSDN event in San Francisco a couple of days ago, I mentioned that Cassini (the mini web server that can is used with ASP.NET 2.0) is not redistributable. I came back and did some research and saw that Cassini is in fact redistributable and portable...

Hey peoples, For those of you who wanted the presentation slides that I used for the seminar, you can find’em over here . Enjoy! AI

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