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February 2004 - Posts

Rob Scoble claims to raise sites from obscurity to a Google rank of 4 with a simple link from his blog. Let's try it out. I have a site (InfiniteSoccer.com) that has been up one month and currently has a rank of 0. Let's see if it works. I'll report back Read More...
There are two responses that I see frequently when MS people run into Bill at work. There’s the “oh my god, it’s Bill Gates!” reaction and the antithesis “he’s just a guy” reaction. The first I think is natural Read More...
One of my old interns, Albert Mungin, is about to graduate UW equipped with a degree in EE and is looking for a job . Albert starting working at MS as a high school intern back before I joined in '96 and has come back most summers to a variety of test Read More...
Beth is complaining about Lincoln using a Peter Gabriel song to sell SUVs and recalls her frustration at hearing the Smiths' How soon is now? being used to sell Mazdas. All I can say is that I feel the pain. Try HP using The Cure's Pictures of You to Read More...
This is pretty handy. Can't wait. Kit George has some vb demo code as well. Read More...
In my perfect MSDN world, clicking a link to a reference article like this findText method would not result in a redirection and wait as the MSDN table of contents tree loads on the left. Why can't I go directly to an article without the toc? Why doesn't Read More...
Today I had this idea of a public site to upload one's blogroll so that you can find out who the people you read read - kind of an Amazon “people who bought this book also bought these...“ feature for weblogs. My buddy Dave Levin thought he'd Read More...
Well, this morning the Exchange team blog was announced on KC's feed , which is fantastic. Hopefully, I can send a few OWA tips that way. I guess we will have to wait and see. This afternoon I attended a talk by Dave Winer at MS. It was my first time Read More...
So Esther Dyson was on campus today, I didn't have a chance to go over and watch in person, but I watched the feed on the intranet. She talked a bit about the buzz of "social software" amongst other things. The term "social software" brings to mind sites Read More...
Today I announce InfiniteSoccer.com , a site for finding and scheduling pick-up soccer games based on the impressive technology that powers InfiniteHoops.com . Very exciting to think that a new franchise is the simple act of creating a new CSS, changing Read More...
 
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