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Oh Wow, Dr. Horrible is AWESOME!

Someone just pointed me to http://www.drhorrible.com , which is Joss Whedon’s newest epic. The first two acts are up on the web (the final act will go up on Saturday). They are spectacularly cool, especially to a musical nut.  I knew that Neil Patrick Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 17, 2008 11:34 AM by LarryOsterman | 4 Comments

In which Larry goes back to college for the first time in over 20 years.

Last weekend we dropped Daniel off at Carnegie-Mellon for summer school (the CMU drama school’s pre-college musical theater program).  It was essentially the first time I’d gone back to CMU since I graduated (we visited for a couple of hours back Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 02, 2008 10:15 AM by LarryOsterman | 16 Comments
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BillG Memories, Part 2

Not surprisingly, as a peon, I don’t get to interact with Bill very often, so my few interactions are almost by definition memorable. I’ve posted this story before , but it deserves to be recycled in honor of Bill’s last few days. This happened back in Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 01, 2008 4:44 PM by LarryOsterman | 22 Comments

BillG Memories, part 1…

I’m going to be out of town tomorrow, so I won’t be able to post this on Bill’s last full time day at Microsoft, but I wanted to post a couple of anecdotes about Bill. This one actually comes from Valorie, it was her first interaction with Bill…   Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 26, 2008 11:09 AM by LarryOsterman | 3 Comments

Hold on, Oliver the Wonder Pony and his rider are ranked 14th in the Nation?

Wow. In the past, I've written about Oliver, the pony we bought a couple of years ago for my daughter to ride. Sharron's long given up riding, but fortunately a young woman in our barn, Margaret Odom decided to take a flier on Oliver and the two have Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 11, 2008 12:48 PM by LarryOsterman | 2 Comments
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Off to the 5th Avenue Awards tonight!

Tonight we're going to be attending the 2008 5th Avenue High School Musical Awards show. It's the local equivalent of the Tony awards for High School musical productions. This year Daniel won an Honorable Mention for his performance as Brownlow in Overlake's Read More...
Posted Monday, June 09, 2008 9:43 AM by LarryOsterman | 0 Comments
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Cool Schwag :)

Not surprisingly, I'm the security contact for my small part of the Windows organization (it's called the Devices&Media group, which is within the WEX division). As such, I'm responsible for providing security guidance and reviewing the threat models Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 15, 2008 2:13 PM by LarryOsterman | 7 Comments
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The Overlake Chamber Choir goes to Verona.

Daniel just returned from a 10 day trip to Italy where his school chamber choir performed at the 2008 Choir International Festival in Verona. One of the Choir parents just sent out an email pointing to two clips of the choir performing: Dravidian Dithyr: Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 01, 2008 2:24 PM by LarryOsterman | 3 Comments
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Why hasn't Larry posted in almost a month?

Mostly because Larry's been swamped with work :). I've been heads down working on stuff and it's pretty much monopolized my time for the past month or so. The good news is that my schedule has relaxed a bit (although I still have what seems to be a never Read More...
Posted Friday, February 15, 2008 2:44 PM by LarryOsterman | 7 Comments
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We're finally legal!

Continuing in a stream of blog posts that started with " 18 years ago, Today ", " Nineteen years ago ", and " 20 years and going strong ", today Valorie and I celebrate our 21st wedding anniversary. We can finally go out and have a drink to celebrate Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 17, 2008 10:38 AM by LarryOsterman | 7 Comments
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Playing Librarian...

Those of you who know me (and my family) from beyond my blog know that among my our many passions, one of the biggest is books. And we've got a lot of them. A couple of years ago, Valorie got me a Flic barcode scanner and a copy of the program Book Collector Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 03, 2008 9:22 PM by LarryOsterman | 24 Comments

Merry Christmas to everyone

We're currently taking a break opening presents (when there's 25 people at xmas, it takes a while :)), but I wanted to drop a note and wish everyone a very merry holiday season and a happy new year :). Yeah, I know it's dopey, but what do you expect - Read More...
Posted Tuesday, December 25, 2007 8:08 AM by LarryOsterman | 6 Comments
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Where's Larry Been?

Sorry about not posting for so long - I'm on vacation for the month of December, so posting will be extremely light (even lighter than usual). See y'all next year. Read More...
Posted Thursday, December 06, 2007 10:56 AM by LarryOsterman | 11 Comments
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Think Geek Responds

Valorie just received the following email from Think Geek ( in response to our previous issue with them ): From: Caroline Offutt [mailto:<email address at thinkgeek.com>] Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2007 7:05 PM To: <valorie's email address> Read More...
Posted Monday, November 19, 2007 11:19 AM by LarryOsterman | 14 Comments

I don't know if I should be honored or ashamed :)

Yesterday, we had the weekly security contacts meeting for the WEX division. At those meetings, they sometimes give out awards for people who have gone above and beyond the call of duty. Much to my surprise, I won one of the awards! You can't read the Read More...
Posted Friday, November 16, 2007 8:57 AM by LarryOsterman | 6 Comments
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