I'm finding it hard to imagine that two years ago today, I walked into the Microsoft office in Atlanta, filled out my new hire paperwork, and within a few days was on a plane hurtling towards my first team meeting in Lake Tahoe. Over these past 2 years...

I got to drive the reknowned Robert Scoble around Atlanta the other day. Well, to be truthful it was just from the Geek Dinner to the Microsoft party at Six Flags Over Georgia. En route we had some great conversations about Google, blogging, company executives...

I know I should change. There’s a better way. There’s a search engine that doesn’t support a different company. There’s a search engine that actually gives a better user experience. There’s a search that needs my help (and...

Yesterday at MGB, Brian Valentine and Kevin Johnson announced the product name for what we've been calling "Longhorn" for a longtime now. World, meet Windows Vista !

Sad news today that James Doohan passed away . There's a guy who went with the flow, even though he had been typecast. I and some of my colleagues are honored to have appeared with him in one of the lost episodes of the original series - Renegade Battle...

I was a bit amused today when I went to use our internal Microsoft travel site. Apparently, the form fill component of the MSN toolbar didn’t want me going anywhere … (click for full size image) Reminds me a bit of that scene in that Being...

As if you don't already have enough banners on your site, we now have standard MSDN Events banners you can use. The cool thing is that will update these image files each quarter to identify what our content will be. Anyway, use them wherever you can!...

Now that I've put forth the upcoming Southeast MSDN events here in my blog, I need to explain how the schedule has been affected. Before I do that, however, I want to express my huge thanks to everyone who's ever turned out for an MSDN Event. It's you...

Following our brief event hiatus in July, we're coming back with even more great content - the focus this time around is ASP.NET 2.0. We're presenting 3 sessions over the half-day event to explore UI, Data Access, and Performance enhancements with the...

I just read this wonderful article by Eric Sink . In it he uses the rules and strategies of games to illustrate guiding principles in the software business. While you’re there, be sure to check out his article about why developers are different...