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Should "Membership Stores" Be Permitted in Redmond's Manufacturing Park Zone?
In coordination with Taylor Development, which among other things owns an undeveloped 60 acre parcel of land that is zoned Manufacturing Park (MP) along Union Hill road in Southeast Redmond ( see Redmond zoning map here and Live.com Map here ), City Staff Read More...
Passing the Community Torch: In Search of a New Chief Executive in Redmond
In the wake of a recent announcement by Redmond Mayor Rosemarie Ives that she will not seek another term of office, I was invited to and personally interviewed her two most viable successors: Councilman Jim Robinson and former councilwoman, Holly Plackett Read More...
Dinner Party Retrospective -- Blaukraut and Saffron Cream
My holiday dinner party went pretty well, by all accounts. Dinner was a little late in coming due to the amazing length of time required to bake a 5lb slab of sea bass at 350F. None of my guests seemed to mind, however. There were plenty of pupus and Read More...
Korby's 2006 Holiday Dinner Party
For the first time in a couple of years, I've decided to host a holiday dinner party for a few of my best friends, at my home in Redmond. For the sake of posterity and to give you some ideas for holiday meals you might want to prepare for your friends Read More...
Kimberly Allen to Run for Redmond City Council
This just in: my fellow Planning Commissioner, Kim Allen has decided to run for Redmond City Council! I have been honored to know and work with Commissioner Allen for close to two years and I recommend her without hesitation. She is the first candidate Read More...
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Redmond to Consider Providing Citywide Wi-Fi
Tonight, the Redmond Planning Commission discussed proposed updates to the Utilities Element , or chapter, of our 20-year Comprehensive Plan. Theoretically, we get around to reviewing each chapter once every five years. The Comp Plan is a state-mandated Read More...
Wi-Fi (and C-Span) for the Masses
Today, eWeek reported that the City of Philadephia, Pennsylvania is considering " an ambitious plan " to enable highspeed Internet access via Wi-Fi in all135 square miles of the city. As a planning commissioner for the City of Redmond , I tip my hat to Read More...
New Life
My wife Jennifer and I are proud to announce the birth of our first child: Kiera Elizabeth Parnell Kiera joined us on Saturday, August 7, 2004 at 6:27PM at Evergreen Hospital in Kirkland, WA. Kiera Facts 8lbs 14oz at birth 21.5 inches long 13in diameter Read More...
Don't Park On Us
At our weekly meeting last night, the Redmond Planning Commission was asked to review potential changes to the Transportation chapter * of the city's Comprehensive Plan. Microsoft, ever-protective of the short term interests of its investors, dispatched Read More...
Software Testers Wanted
Hallmarks of a Great Tester is the best Microsoft help wanted post I've seen yet. Oops, I just ruined it. Anyway, it begins with, “ If you ask me, I'll tell you a great tester Is devious A great tester has a streak of deviousness. Anyone can follow Read More...
My Blog Year in Review
It is often said that weblogging really took off on the day when you started blogging...or when I started blogging, as the case may be. This adage reminds me of a question that all Microsoft employees are asked on their first day of work. Q: What is the Read More...
M&Ms Anyone?
Any grocery store employee in the vicinity of Microsoft main campus in Redmond can tell you that Microsoft developers dig M&Ms . We can't get enough of the tasty little treats. And when there are no more chocolatey M&Ms available :-( we buy whatever Read More...
Sipping from the Microsoft Firehose
“Sipping from the Firehose” is Microspeak for, 'I have 111 documentation issues (ahem, bugs) to fix, program managers from three feature teams knocking down my door, seventy topics in tech review, another fifty in the queue, 950 topics from Read More...
Who is Korby Parnell?
For the life of me, I don't know how anyone with an ounce of modesty can bring themselves to write a feature length autobiography. I was recently asked to throw together a short bio for a team Website. Doing so was tougher than completing my annual Microsoft Read More...
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