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Tuesday, February 28, 2006 5:14 PM

I've got a new job: Leaving the MTC, joining Windows Live!

I am moving to the MSN / Windows Live team! I have been working with the Microsoft Technology Centers for a few years now, and have been focused on the "enterprise" customer space for my entire 12 years here at Microsoft. So, it's time to move. I am joining
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Sunday, November 06, 2005 3:39 AM

Traveling the world, missing our dogs

Lorie and I are visiting Microsoft Technology Centers and squeezing in some vacation in Beijing, Tokyo, Taipei, Dubai, Frankfurt, Zurich, Milan, Venice, San Francisco/Berkeley, and who knows where else. Even though this 'Round The World trip is amazing
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Thursday, October 27, 2005 12:03 AM

Why I work at Microsoft

I recently posted my resume on my blog, and this resulted in a few people to contact me wondering if I wanted to leave Microsoft. My answer is always " NO" . Here is what I love about my job, which is my minimum bar before even considering working somewhere
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Wednesday, October 26, 2005 9:38 PM

How can Microsoft help change the world?

I've been doing some thinking and figured I would ask the blogsphere.... How would you combine all of these different assets to enable our customers and partners to change the world? It seems like we have a lot of stuff (facilities, patents, technologies,
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Thursday, October 06, 2005 12:07 PM

A $20 Cookie for Katrina Victims

Here is how I just paid $20 for a chocolate chip cookie: Sara Ford works here at Microsoft She grew up in Waveland , MS which was hit by hurricane Katrina Her parents house was flooded and the entire community needs help Sara decided to help MSNBC contacted
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Friday, September 09, 2005 3:20 PM

Balanced Scorecard

I recently finished reading Balanced Scorecard Step-by-Step by Paul R. Niven and if you manage any part of a business, then I highly suggest reading this book. It’s pretty dry reading, but the concepts and how he guides you through it are very good. Of
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Saturday, July 30, 2005 11:42 AM

XBox 360 Design Review

A friend of mine (Alan Shen) helped develop the UI and pointed me to a good write-up of the process that went into creating the UI for the XBox 360. The article is at http://www.designinteract.com/features/xbox/ We don't own an XBox right now, or even
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Thursday, July 21, 2005 9:40 PM

Theo's Last Hop: Our Rabbit's Eulogy

For some reason, I feel like sharing this with anyone who is interested: Theo’s time was up, so today Lorie and I took him to the vet for his final visit, and we didn’t return home with him. He was almost 9 years old and due to some internal complications,
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Monday, July 11, 2005 9:22 AM

The start of something exciting

Watch Steve Ballmer's interview on Channel 9 to get an idea of how excited Steve is (and I'd say everyone else at Microsoft too) about the future of the software business and what it can do for the world. I know I agree! It is one of the big reasons why
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Monday, June 27, 2005 5:21 PM

Life as a Support Engineer, circa 1994

For me, some of the more interesting blogs I see from Microsoft employees are about “the old days”. In that spirit, here is what my experience was in 1994, which was the year I started working at Microsoft. I was hired to support OS/2 LAN Manager for
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Saturday, April 30, 2005 1:15 AM

Microsoft Small Business Center, a Tablet PC, and a 5-year old

A friend of mine has a very talented 5-year old daughter who has been using a Tablet PC to draw pictures. You can see her hard at work on a Tablet PC at http://www.helencards.com/ . Her dad, Paul, has used Microsoft’s Small Business Center (was called
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Monday, April 18, 2005 2:55 PM

Demos and Evangelism

Here are a couple of quick tips for those of you doing demos and generating excitement about your products, which many of us at Microsoft do, or at least try to do :-) A book by Peter E. Cohan: Great Demo: How to Create and Execute Stunning Software Demonstrations
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Thursday, March 24, 2005 8:12 PM

Dogs at Microsoft

And no, I am not talking about the discontinued “Microsoft Dogs” product, of which I actually bought a copy at our company store when we used to sell it. This is about life at Microsoft. I had my dog (Ripley) at work today, but unfortunately in the car
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Friday, March 11, 2005 9:59 PM

Ten Reasons Why Blogging is Good For Your Career

Tim Bray, who works for Sun Microsystems has written up a great list of why blogging is good for your career . I completely agree and suggest you take a look at his list if you’ve been wondering the same thing. Thanks to Michael Rys for pointing it out
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Monday, February 07, 2005 11:22 PM

Blog Article in The Longview Daily News

I grew up in Longview, Washington and was recently interviewed for an article ( Local bloggers caught in the web ) by the local newspaper there about local people (ex-local in my case) who have their own blogs. I don't think my quotes are quite accurate,
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