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Monday, November 16, 2009 4:24 PM

Learning as a family trait

A few days ago a cousin of mine posted some pictures that I haven’t seen in years. They really got me thinking. The first one was a picture of my grandfather from around Christmas 1953 or so, they year “the twins” were born. The next was a picture of
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Thursday, October 15, 2009 1:40 PM

World Standards Day

Yesterday was World Standards Day. Mark Ryland, one of the guys I work with on a regular basis, posted a great article yesterday talking about Microsoft’s position on standards and the smart grid. I sat in that same room (well there were several drab
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Thursday, October 15, 2009 1:35 PM

Microsoft Smart Energy Reference Architecture

This crossed my desk today. These guys busted their butts to get this done and out. Congrats to the Utilities team.   Dear Power & Utilities Community: We released the Microsoft Smart Energy Reference Architecture (SERA) on Tuesday and we hope
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Wednesday, October 07, 2009 4:11 PM

Seattle City Light is connected to Hohm

I completely forgot to tell anyone. Seattle City Light has passed all of their Hohm integration certification tests and they’ve gone live. You can read the SCL press release here . Congratulations to SCL for being the first and for a job well done.
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Tuesday, July 07, 2009 11:05 AM

Hohm’s beta audience is US single-family households

For now yes, Hohm is targeted at US single-family households. Sure, it’s possible to use it for multi-family homes, but some of the assumptions start to break down. Over time we’ll extend the models to support other countries. In the meantime, if you
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Monday, July 06, 2009 11:20 AM

Sitting in deployment – Microsoft Hohm goes live

Other than a few minor DNS hiccups, Microsoft Hohm went live this morning. The team’s been sitting in a conference room on campus since about 5:30 this morning watching things spin up. We’re triaging other issues, but so far there have been no show-stopper
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Wednesday, June 24, 2009 3:55 PM

Announcing Microsoft Hohm

So, I haven’t been blogging much over the last year or so. But, there’s a reason. I couldn’t really talk much about what I’ve been working on. Turns out, starting today, I can. This morning we announced Microsoft Hohm . Once again I’m playing the role
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Friday, December 26, 2008 10:35 AM

Why are thermostats like a VCR?

Actually, I don’t have an answer. For some reason thermostats still seem to follow a 1980s user paradigm. There are days where a simple T-50 (you know, the round thermostat) model would work tremendously better. I needed to change my thermostat settings,
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Wednesday, December 17, 2008 11:18 AM

Temperature inversion

Well, turns out doing a bunch of home “tightening” has some interesting effects on the climate in the house (and helped locate a few external leaks that were missed). My house is what’s called a tri-level. That is you enter on the main floor which has
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Thursday, November 20, 2008 10:02 AM

It’s getting warmer in Bellevue?

I’ve been paying attention to two different things about my house for the last year or so (while I’ve gone dark). The first is that it’s unusually cold in parts of the house, the house is showing its age, and the single-pane windows always seem to be
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Sunday, June 29, 2008 8:31 PM

I've decided that I finally really give up on stored procedures

As much as I want to play the game and use stored procedures for data access logic, time and time again I run into yet anothe rissue where I get bit. I've always pushed back on developers who want to use stored procedures for any number of reasons. There's
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Thursday, May 29, 2008 3:29 PM

Too funny

Yeah, yeah, I've been really quiet for a really long time. I know. I'm sorry. But, I've been busy with my new venture in MSR. I can't talk about much of it right now, even our internal email messages go through DRM. Let's just say that I've been having
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Friday, February 08, 2008 3:19 PM

GP's been drinking the Kool-aid again

I really respect GP 's opinions on a lot of SaaS-related issues, but this one might be pushing my boundaries a little bit. GP is starting to confuse a rich client experience sitting on some "free" cloud storage as an S+S story. I don't know about this.
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Friday, January 04, 2008 10:49 AM

Not surprising, but I have nothing to say

It's not going to come as a surprise to anyone who used to read my blog and has noticed that it's been very quite. I realized that I really have nothing to say when I'm not working on a project that I can say nothing about. I have been working on a few
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Thursday, September 20, 2007 4:00 PM

SaaS: Collaboration

Yesterday I set the stage for the 5Cs of Saas: collaboration, community, connectedness, completeness, and changeability. Today I'm going to focus on collaboration in SaaS. As I mentioned yesterday our team found, through customer interviews and research,
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