Browse by Tags
All Tags »
Tid-bits (RSS)
So, a bunch of us here at work are on facebook. I logged in this morning, and it logged in fine. Then I got an email from a Microsoft employee I dont know and she said facebook seems to be logging her in as me! Next thing I know, I was logged out, facebook
Read More...
I had my first Live WebCast today on Intro to WF Rules. I did a tech-check with Julie and we checked the sound, the slides, discussed the protocol we would follow to reach each other during the Webcast, how to mute everyone else except me etc...We had
Read More...
Well, Western Washington seems to have made this a habit. We got snow again yesterday, and where I live, we have 9 inches of snow! Driving on the local roads is risky and I for now, cant even get out of my house in the car since there are cars just stranded
Read More...
My main work for the next two weeks is to take care of WCF servicing. This means responding to forum questions, taking care of any customer issues that arrive in these two weeks etc. As part of that, I was going through old forum questions that have not
Read More...
On Friday, Day 8, we got power. Felt great to be back home!
Read More...
Another day gone, another day without power. It's just getting unbelievable. So, I found out that there are 24 houses in my community without power. There's more than 2000 houses in all, and I guess I am seeing what being in a minority implies. PSE was
Read More...
What are the odds of living in a community where 99% of homes have power but ours doesn't? The person across the street has power too. Still counting and hoping we'll get power today.
Read More...
In the windstorm that hit the pacific northwest on Thursday night, a lot of homes lost power. We, still do not have power - 5 days later. They're saying it could be through the weekend before we get power. Funny enough, most of my community got power
Read More...
Last week the Channel 9 team came over to our building. They initially wanted to do an interview with Doug , our Group Program Manager. But Doug loves to put a nice spin to things, so he called other folks from the team over to his office and it ended
Read More...
I am actually in DC this week at the Business Rules Forum conference, but someone sent me a couple of photos - it's been raining near Seattle like crazy. Yes, even though most people feel that's not news for Seattle, let me tell you, it's usually just
Read More...
I was rearranging my taskbar and lost the show desktop icon and was searching how to do this. I “googled” “show desktop windows” and popped out in the first few links.... http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/windowstips/story/0,24330,3549002,00.html
Read More...
Florin brings up an important point...something we normally forget to do, making our machines more vulnerable to hackers. You dont really need to be logged in as an administrator all the time while developing software. Read Florin's post here .
Read More...
I just figured out that I can configure my reader to point to msdn and check for updates when I read my other blogs. May be you all already you knew that, but here it is for those of us who didnt know about this: http://msdn.microsoft.com/webservices/rss.xm
Read More...
Meetings at Microsoft are an inevitable thing. Scheduling rooms for meetings is also an inevitable thing...I think it takes longer to schedule a meeting and finding a room than it should... Today, the Find Printer dialog can autofill my location correctly
Read More...
I have been using this for a while, ever since I installed outlook 11 . I find it very useful for remembering things I need to do. When you get a mail, just single click on the follow up flag to mark it with a “red” follow up tag. I often
Read More...
