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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...
Posted 26 December 06 11:56 by KorbyP | 1 Comments   
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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...
Posted 21 December 06 12:54 by KorbyP | 0 Comments   
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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...
Posted 15 July 04 01:24 by KorbyP | 7 Comments   
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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...
Posted 09 June 04 05:07 by KorbyP | 2 Comments   
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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...
Posted 20 May 04 05:55 by KorbyP | 2 Comments   
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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...
Posted 27 April 04 11:15 by KorbyP | 8 Comments   
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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...
Posted 18 March 04 10:58 by KorbyP | 5 Comments   
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