Buggin' My Life Away

It's mid afternoon Saturday, July 27, 2007. The scene is Toyota Park, suburban Chicago, Illinois, home of some minor league soccer team. We're between acts during the Crossroads Guitar Festival, and Bill Murray walks out to introduce the next act. A few...

One of the things I love about this job is tracking downinteresting bugs.   It’s like readinga good who-done-it, complete with plot twists, multiple potential suspects and a fascinating array of characters.   Late last September, Craig Eisler submitted...

I've had quite a bit of positive feedback on my last post, so I thought I'd do another musical post. "Trading fours," or "trading eights," is a jazz term that refers to one or more soloists taking turns in a solo. The idea is for each musician to pick...

Wow. What a stretch. We shipped the bits for Office 2008 off to manufacturing back in December, and that very day I was still in the office until 10:00 that night doing some prep work for the next release of Office. Having been head down in Office 2008...

Seattle. Middle of January. Nothing in the sky but this huge, yellow thing. Looking at it hurts your eyes. In that context, read this transcript . "Don't put your lips on it!" Rick Currently playing in iTunes: Afternoon by the Pat Metheny Group