About a month ago, my wife told me that someone had stolen the sandwich boards for the Wallingford Senior Center. (Sandwich boards are the signs that many companies and realtors put out on the streetcorners to attract attention.) The Wallingford Senior...

At Microsoft there is a stage of the development called ZBB or "zero bug bounce." ZBB basically means that the software teams have taken care of all their open bugs for the current milestone and are ready to transition to the next milestone. ZBB is a...

For many years I've wanted a larger wood shop. I have a couple hundred square feet in the basement that I share with the furnace, water heater, and a host of other stuff. In order to cut a 4x8 sheet of plywood on the table saw, I need to stop midway and...

I was at a party last night to celebrate the finish of a friend's kitchen remodel. (I arrived late and brought champagne.) The friend is David Rasmussen, a program manager on the Office team. We got into several interesting conversations, including a...

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You really need to watch this . You think that 2014 will see news doing this? The Google Grid? "Participatory Journalism" takes over?

Reading through my daily headlines, I found a CNN story about tiny cameras that Fox is placing in the end zones for the Superbowl. What amused me about this story wasn't the technology, but the end of it, in which they talk about the chances of the cameras...