An average of one new weblog is created every second of every day according to Technorati.com.  So I guess during the completion of my first entry to the blogging world there will be another 180...

 

I'm starting my third week here at Microsoft and creating my first blog ever!  I would like to start off by thanking Brian Goldfarb for giving me the opportunity to join the Web Platform and Tools Product Management team.  It's interesting to note that I first contacted Brian through a job posting on his blog.  I'm really excited about my new position and it looks like I'll be working with some awesome people (at least that's what it seems like so far :).

 

Previously, I was working in Deloitte's consulting practice located in Toronto, Ontario.  It was my first full-time job after graduating from the Systems Engineering program at the University of Waterloo.  Although I was not particularly 'academically-inclined', I was fortunate to enjoy a diverse set of co-op placements, including:  Nortel in Raleigh, NC, a law firm in the Cayman Islands, and QUALCOMM in San Diego.  During my work terms I was working primarily with web technologies and I decided to choose this position at Microsoft in order to return to web-related work.

 

I'm not exactly sure what I'll write about in future entries, but I definitely plan on making at least a few interesting posts.

 

Hmmm…I was wrong, according to the metric there were about 300 new weblogs.