Welcome to MSDN Blogs Sign in | Join | Help

Browse by Tags

All Tags » Life at Microsoft   (RSS)

Geeks making pizza

Posted Tuesday, May 13, 2008 5:33 PM by HeatherLeigh
Here's a cool Microsoft morale event . OK, serious geek points to the guy who likened pizza-making to dog-fooding. Yeah, we love our geeks around here; how can you not? Also, I want that pizza oven in my backyard but they cost about $2K. And, you know, Read More...
7 Comments

Telecommuting losing it's appeal?

Posted Monday, May 05, 2008 2:17 PM by HeatherLeigh
This article in eWeek is timely; this is exactly what is going on with me. While I love having the flexibility to work from home, it can be isolating. Sometimes you need to be around people. So I am more frequently dropping into the office for just that Read More...
5 Comments

From Harvey Danger to Program Manager

Posted Thursday, May 01, 2008 4:02 PM by HeatherLeigh
Short but good interview on Microspotting with Jeff Lin, formerly of band Harvey Danger, now a PM in Virtual Earth 3D. You won't be able to get the song out of your head after you read the interview. That, of course, could just be paranoia, paranoia...everybody's Read More...
5 Comments
Filed under:

The Challenge: Emptying My Inbox

Posted Thursday, April 03, 2008 9:51 AM by HeatherLeigh
I'm not sure if I can do this but I am so going to challenge myself. Next Friday, I'm leaving for Australia (whee!). I'm one of those people that has work on the brain pretty much 24x7. It's not usually a stress thing, it's just how I am; always thinking. Read More...
15 Comments

The greatest invention ever...

Posted Saturday, March 29, 2008 2:15 PM by HeatherLeigh
...index cards. I swear. When I was in high school, a teacher taught us how to use note cards to construct a paper: you make an outline, transfer it to note cards and then add extra cards throughout to supplement with content. You re-order, create transitions Read More...
5 Comments

This should come with some kind of mood altering substance

Posted Friday, March 28, 2008 9:22 AM by HeatherLeigh
Your mailbox is almost full. Please reduce your mailbox size. Delete any items you don't need from your mailbox and empty your Deleted Items folder. Your total mailbox capacity, shown above, refers to the limit at which you will no longer be able to send Read More...
4 Comments

About working from home

Posted Thursday, March 27, 2008 7:59 PM by HeatherLeigh
I get lots of questions about working from home. Did I ever share photos of my home office now that I bought the whole furniture get-up? I should do that. Most of the questions that I get have to do with the temptations. People rarely mention the specific Read More...
3 Comments

Bill Gates Joins LinkedIn

Posted Thursday, February 28, 2008 11:48 AM by HeatherLeigh
Article in WSJ . How many bets that he is going to be a super-linker? I don't care, I just want to be connected. OMG...I'm scared to send the LinkedIn request! Read More...
14 Comments
Filed under:

Eating at Microsoft

Posted Tuesday, February 05, 2008 8:45 AM by HeatherLeigh
Here's an article on food services at Microsoft. Working from home, I don't eat on campus that frequently. Plus, I definitely experienced the freshman fifteen before I got my act together and started going to the Pro Club. I do find dining on campus to Read More...
4 Comments
Filed under:

The Small Business Show

Posted Friday, January 25, 2008 9:05 AM by HeatherLeigh
Just found out about this from a co-worker. Evidently, we (Microsoft) have a web show about small businesses. It may particularly appeal to me because I'm a goofy, right-brained entrepreneur program graduate ("Hey, Heather...what you doing with that degree?"). Read More...
2 Comments

Is Microsoft getting it's own "Easy Button?"

Posted Wednesday, January 23, 2008 7:45 AM by HeatherLeigh
Looks like we hired Todd Peters , the exec from Staples that handled the whole easy button thing. Which is a little funny because I told one of our vendors yesterday that I was looking for the easy button to help with getting his vendor application through Read More...
7 Comments

Whoah...Seattle Storm!

Posted Tuesday, January 08, 2008 5:09 PM by HeatherLeigh
Just saw on the news that Lisa Brummel (our VP of HR and my boss's boss's boss) is one of the new owners of the Seattle Storm. Cool! News here , here , here, here, here. Read More...
10 Comments

Bill's Last Day

Posted Monday, January 07, 2008 7:54 AM by HeatherLeigh
Spoof video shown at CES on Bill's last day . I'm still kind of amazed that we can get some of these people to do this stuff. (edit: looking for a better version of this) Read More...
7 Comments
Filed under:

Transgendered in life and at Microsoft

Posted Thursday, January 03, 2008 12:08 PM by HeatherLeigh
I read the blog of Megan Wallent over the holidays. Megan is an exec at Microsoft and used to be called Michael. She discussed in frank detail her decision to present as a female and what that means for her at work. You might want to do what I did....click Read More...
1 Comments
Filed under:

If I seem distracted...

Posted Thursday, December 06, 2007 9:12 PM by HeatherLeigh
....this song has been running through my head for about the last 6 months. Two men, two baby blue tuxedoes, two pianos Read More...
0 Comments
Filed under:
More Posts Next page »
 
Page view tracker