I love working at Microsoft and I especially love getting to work on the operating system. One of the the things I love about working on the OS is that I get to run the operating system as soon as it's built. If there's a new feature, I can have it on...

Occasionally, I get so wrapped up in other things that I totally miss something big (I didn't hear about the Columbia Shuttle disaster until almost a year later). The most recent "big" thing I missed was the buzz about Dr. Randy Pausch's The Last Lecture...