Taylor Parsons (new PM for MSCOM RSS Directory , the project I shipped [as PM] in May), Dave Morehouse (Product Manager for same) and I had a few spare minutes at the end of a meeting. Somehow, the fact that Dave previously lived in Alaska came up; this...

First, thanks to Peter Provost and Brad Wilson for introducing me to TRAF; I have been using the 'Getting Things Done' (GTD) system alongside my overall FranklinCovey time management system; GTD is very similar to TRAF but the order of actions is important...

Keynote: Office 12: Steven Sinofsky demoed some very cool features in Share Point aspects of Office 12. InfoPath especially has some great updates. It will be interesting to see the developer response; there has been very little code in these demos but...

I had a great time today working in the Microsoft Pavilion for the Microsoft.com Community team. I had a lot of interesting conversations with customers about how they use community to help them do their jobs (and to have fun, meet people, etc.). What...

First official day here in LA; I ran into Chris Sells at the Westin this AM. He's one of my favorite Microsofties and I'm sorry that I won't be here for his presentation on Friday. If you're still here then be sure to catch his presentation. Bill Gates...

I read Michael Lehman's post earlier tonight regarding helping the victims of Hurricane Katrina. The Seattle area Red Cross is holding mass volunteer orientations over the next week. I know I'm going to try to make one this weekend before PDC. Also, I...

I'm getting ready to head to LA for PDC 2005. I'll be representing the Microsoft.com Community team. Our primary goal is to build technologies that allow Microsoft customers to interact with each and with Microsoft. Current offerings include Microsoft...