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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>With Great Power comes Great Response.write("Ability") : Redmond</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/phaniraj/archive/tags/Redmond/default.aspx</link><description>Tags: Redmond</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)</generator><item><title>The halls are empty</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/phaniraj/archive/2008/12/22/the-halls-are-empty.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 09:33:43 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:9246405</guid><dc:creator>PhaniRajuYN</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.msdn.com/phaniraj/comments/9246405.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.msdn.com/phaniraj/commentrss.aspx?PostID=9246405</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;I probably brought this onto myself by taking all my vacation time in November to go back home for a month long visit.    &lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;Now that its December , almost 80% of the team is on vacation and I am in office. Its not just my team , most of my floor     &lt;br /&gt;in building 35 is on vacation. I hardly see anyone in the hallways nowadays , the silence feels unusual.     &lt;br /&gt;Most of the people with whom I used to discuss any new ideas are on vacation , and not having anyone around     &lt;br /&gt;to bounce my ideas off of feels weird . Although , the silence lets me get a lot done though , no distractions.     &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Thanks to the unusual ( in Redmond terms) snow, the campus shuttles are shut down for these snowed-in days .    &lt;br /&gt;That means my walk to work for&amp;#160; a distance of mere 3 mile feels like 10 miles as I have to walk real slow     &lt;br /&gt;to prevent slipping on the ice and falling . And not to mention that it gets dark by 4 PM in the evening .     &lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;So I go to work in the dark and go home in the dark, but only have an eight hour day.     &lt;br /&gt;Guess I can check off one of the items in the list of &lt;a target="_blank" href="http://www.skrause.org/humor/northwest.shtml"&gt;You Might be from the Pacific Northwest if You&lt;/a&gt;….     &lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;This is how evenings look when I step out in the evenings to go home .     &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64066546@N00/3126800793/"&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="DSCN0333" border="0" alt="DSCN0333" src="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/phaniraj/WindowsLiveWriter/Thehallsareempty_1275B/DSCN0333.jpg" width="244" height="184" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Pretty awesome , isn’t it !    &lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;Oh and before I forget , &lt;strong&gt;Happy Holidays Readers !! &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9246405" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/phaniraj/archive/tags/Personal/default.aspx">Personal</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/phaniraj/archive/tags/Nontech/default.aspx">Nontech</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/phaniraj/archive/tags/Snow/default.aspx">Snow</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/phaniraj/archive/tags/Redmond/default.aspx">Redmond</category></item></channel></rss>