I just read an interesting post by Chris Pratley on the History of the Project Manager position at Microsoft. He ended it with this bit that resonated with me: I’m not sure where this saying came from originally, but one way to describe PMs is that they not only “pick up and run with the […]

Well, kind of… Last MacWorld I got to help with building what the Marketing team calls a “sizzle reel.” If you’ve ever been to MacWorld and seen the Microsoft booth there, you know that there’s a projection screen in the “theater” area where we demo Office. Well when we break between demos we show stuff […]

I’ll never forget reading this post by Robert Scoble: Two guys, heading back to Iraq Yesterday, when I was boarding the plane in JFK airport I saw two guys, dressed in US Army uniforms, huging their wives, crying. One had a young daughter hanging off his leg while her parents clung to each other with […]

Yesterday we had our Office 2004 Service Pack 2 ship party, and I got to talking with Rich Schaut about his blog and we started to list all the MacBU bloggers. We kept listing names, but they no longer work in MacBU, so the qualification became: currently working at MacBU and has a blog. The […]

Last Friday we had the 26th Microsoft Company meeting and celebrated Microsoft’s 30th anniversary. As a member of the Macintosh Business Unit I got to attend. Microsoft rented the SafeCo baseball stadium for the 7 hour meeting and it was cold. It was fun. I’m overall pretty sure my underwater stock options will come up […]

From President John F. Kennedy’s address at Rice University on the Nation’s Space Effort, Houston, Texas, September 12, 1962: We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will […]

Yesterday I was listening to a podcast and found this gem, the first paragraph of which is simply the background by Neal A. Maxwell for the quote: I think, for instance, of the towering and courageous Winston Churchill, admired in so many ways, including by me, but who had serious difficulty containing his ego which […]

If you are wondering where my Oshkosh videos of Burt Rutan and friends are, well, they’re on my hard drive, beautifully encoded in MPEG 4 and waiting to be given to the world. The problem has been a technical one. If you care for the details, I can’t “seed the torrent” from behind my AirPort […]

I’ve mountain biked quite a bit here in the beautiful Pacific Northwest and bent my fair share of axles and derailleurs, so this seems like a perfect solution. You get better ground clearance (13 inches), because there front gear is gone, but I wonder how you grind over a log with this thing. For $750 […]

It’s this kind of stuff that makes me love astronomy. 9 billion years of cosmic history that in 2 minutes 51 seconds. These galaxies were photographed by Hubble as part of the Great Observatory Origins Deep Survey (GOODS) project. The original source image contains over 600 million pixels. Hubble scientists and imaging specialists worked for […]