The New York Times the other day talked about the problem with business meetings about too much time being spent in meetings per week . The Average as you can see from the graphic on the left is 4.34 hrs spent per week and about 2.28 hrs for Males and...

Yesterday, Levitt wrote this wonderful little piece about the Ukranian win over the Swiss in Penalty kicks where the Swiss apparently "took his advice" and shoot in the middle of the goal and Lost. The advice I refer to is his paper on the predictions...

"So Does Microsoft sponsor H1B visas!?" Aaah - how many times have I heard that question asked of me. Jenna Adorno (the JobsBlog headhoncho) now that Gretchen is out doing her thang at JobSyntax has a small little write up on this issue .. and for...

Apart from the downtime and long hrs at work spent at work migrating across to Vista and back from XP there was one casualty this weekend. I lost one email during all the " pst chunking" A West Coast blog reader of mine (actually she was Heather' s...

Now *This* is Coolness! Everyone whoz anyone knows that the chances that the person sitting next to you in an airplane is paying the same airfare as you is extremely low especially in the US airfare industry. There have been several interesting websites...

There have been tons of discussion around " Flashy Car Colors leading to tickets ", but do speeding tickets happen in pairs (read: within a week) ? Well based on my experience in PA and in WA, and some of my friends here at work (who shall be unnamed...

On my migration from Office 2003 to Office 12 - Outlook went from slow to Stop. After long calls with the IT Helpdesk the problem was resolved. My PST files were 1.8GB big, the recommended size is about 1 GB. It took a good part of 4 hrs to chunk...

Chalk this one on my list of Stupid things to do. Given that Office 2003 on XP was running as fast Daffy Duck on a marathon - what was I thinking when I decided to upgrade to Office 12 on Vista at that. The pointed Fingers are aimed at a certain Felipe...

Quite interesting that when India makes it to the covers that the foto to be chosen (Left) is a Bharathanatiyam dancer from South India. Especially when you realize that 5 out of 7 ppl polled typically would have said that the TajMahal as the first thing...

Talk about real-time info.... Office Server Recruiting Reception Wednesday, June 14, 2006, Building 31 Cafeteria 5-7PM This event is for external candidates and Microsofties.....bring your friends (or their resumes)! Please attend our Recruiting...

Before u read any further - do realise this post is more a reflection with interest and NOT an endorsement, support or remark of any kind. Last week's update when we opened up Vista Beta2 Download came with a usage warning on June 9th that high demand...

Google Current - a brief really hip TV Segment on what people are searching for online being showcased on Current TV an interactive cable channel. Shouldnt be long before this becomes pop-culture and behavioral trends of searches and reasons to search...

Back in March, I had hosted on behalf of Microsoft and the WWESS Recruiting committee (this is was much before the last reorg ofcourse) The Annual Tepper Students @ Microsoft Day and thanx to my extended 2-part blog-hiatus the update is coming now! Oh...

Remember the mainframe concept of consolidation? Where all the CPU power, rules , data are all in one central server - and if that crashes all hell breaks loose? Well the way I maintain my wallet is not too dissimilar to that. All credit cards, cash,...

May 31st was the 1st year anniversary of my tenure here at Microsoft. And what was a year and feels like five - there are 10 learnings that I can enlist: Keep your boss happy. Keep your Admins happier. Change is Constant because of Reorgs ...