this is what was going on over my house You hear this sound like: fffffffttththhhhhhhhhttttt (got that?) and look up and this big ball of color is floating over your house with arms extended over the side waving. By the time I got the camera out...

Last week, I went to a manager all-hands in Charleston. At Microsoft, an "all-hands" is when everyone from a group gets together at the same time. If it's somewhere other than your regular work locations, it's sometimes called an "offsite". So I guess...

Is anyone else reading Good to Great (Jim Collins)? I just started it and granted, I am reading 2 other books at the same time (Pledged and No Need for Speed....hey, I have diverse interests; rationalizing my sorority membership and being the best darned...

Here's a nice eWeek article about interns at Microsoft and they kind of work that they do. My exposure to interns has been limited to our one summer a few years ago when we got to work with Sakun, who is at Microsoft on her second HR rotation. In my experience...

Recruiters care very much about your current or most recent employer. Why? Because the fact that you work for that employers means you have an understanding of a specific industry space. Or because that employer has a history of hiring great talent. For...

That ain't nothin'. Recruiters are pretty accustomed to some awkwardness; especially when interviews are supposed to be conversations but sometimes unravel into an uncomfortable list of Q & A with a nervous candidate or one not particularly...

This is a pretty fascinating story on the search for Jim Gray, a well-known Microsoft researcher, using some of his own technology. Jim disappeared at sea months ago and remains unfound.

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In the interest of skipping the first few comments wondering why anyone would wear such a thing (Miami? Anyone?)...it's an art installation. I think it's about the practicality/novelty trade-off and consumerism. Ooh, deep. PS: I still hate Crocs for...

Only look at this blog , whatjeffkilled.com if you want to see the guts of small (or sometimes large-ish) rodents. Jeff is a cat. You've been warned. And if you want to know "why? why? why?", you can check out the particularly humorous Q&A here. One...

Business Week has a short article about meeting seating dynamics . (Image from Businessweek.com) I've read about this before. I agree with it to some extent, however, something that I think the article doesn't mention, that I have noticed, is that...

I guess that's kind of the point. Who knew Teddy Bears could get down like that. Zune ad (Thanks Ariel )

I left Chicago in 1999 after a significant snowstorm. I had the coolest loft apartment with those big industrial floor to ceiling windows with the metal hand crank that let's you open a square portion of the window for air circulation. And exposed duct...

Nintendo sold us that scruffy patch of land. The one they (allegedly!) held off on selling to us for parking, just out of spite. I don't begrudge anyone a little spite, by the way. If you can channel it into healthy competition, it's good for business...

In the brilliant marketing file, 7 Elevens are being turned into Kwik-e-Marts . I could see where there's significant cross-over between Simpson's viewers and potential 7 Eleven customers (I'm neither by-the-way...I think I bought a diet coke slurpee...

I was going to resist writing about this, but since it relates to recruiting, I feel a little compelled to say something. This is all my opinion, not necessarily the opinion of Microsoft, blah, blah, blah. Also, since I am not naive enough to believe...