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That's how many blog posts I have written before. It also happens to be the expected readership of this blog. Having no idea how to do this and suspecting that no one will ever care, I'll just say a few things about myself and what I do and some of the things I think I'd like to write about in this blog.

I work on the test team for the Common Language Runtime product at Microsoft. Officially my title is "Software Design Engineer/Test" but I'm pretty comfortable just sticking with "tester". Microsoft was my first employer out of undergraduate five years ago, and testing is my second job at the company. My first was working in the support department, known as PSS. There I supported SQL Server and MDAC products for the big money spending professional support customers, and the even bigger money spending premier customers. I even wrote a nice little paper for MSDN on MDAC installation which was quite well received; maybe you've read -  no? okay, nevermind.

My undergraduate degree was in computer science (what else?) from the University of Oklahoma. I've since taken advantage of a terrific evening degree program to get my Master's in computer science over the last couple years here in Seattle. For the last 2 1/2 years I've been a tester for the CLR.

Going forward I hope to use this blog to focus mainly on the technology I test within the CLR. Now the real acid test is whether this is the only blog I ever write or not. One of the things I don't like so much about the supercharged fast paced culture in this industry (and company) is that the values of sticking with things and seeing things through to completion are sometimes chucked in favor of hypermultitasking. I'm more than a little guilty of this myself. So here we are... it's the start of a 4 day Christmas weekend holiday... I will write one more post before going back to work next Monday. Right. Sure. Let's see what happens.