Last summer our oldest daughter was married and I had the awesome responsibility of saying a few words at the wedding reception to the newly married bride and groom.
I do a fair amount of speaking in my job as an Evangelist at Microsoft, but this was a very different talk. After a lot of thought [...]

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Yes it is.
I just finished a migration to Wordpress from Graffiti CMS. It took awhile, but I was able to sucessfully import all of my posts and finally configure Wordpress so that my all of my permalinks are preserved.
In case you were wondering, on the server side this site is running Windows.
Lets see [...]

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Photo Credit: Sweet Juniper
I miss blogging.
I know a number of people have written over the last few months that with the rise of social networks like Twitter and Facebook, that people are blogging less. This isn’t about that.
This about the lack of story telling or opinion in many of today’s personal tech / geek [...]

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Today our Mix Online team shipped Glimmer. Glimmer is a wizard that allows you to easily create interactive elements on your web pages by harnessing the power of the jQuery library. Without having to hand-craft your JavaScript code, you can use Glimmer’s wizards to generate jQuery scripts for common interactive scenarios. Glimmer also has [...]

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Late at night, I often listen to the radio as it helps me unwind, wash away the day as I’m finishing up email for the day or attempting to drift off to sleep.
My preference is to listen to open line type programs like Dr. Bill Wattenburg on KGO AM, Bruce Williams [...]

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Who would have thought? Channel 9 is Five.
Plenty of fun stuff happening this week on the site, all starting with a birthday song bh Chris Anderson and Don Box. It has been a pretty amazing ride for everyone since we launched the site. A fun week ahead of celebrating, remembering and visions [...]

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It snowed again this morning at our home in Fall City, Washington. I’m not sure when this cruel joke of winter will be over here. I moved away from Saskatchewan to leave snow. Although to keep it in perspective, it hasn’t really been cold.
Making up for it all was this amazing photo that [...]

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Interested in what the weather is like in Redmond, Washington at Microsoft? If so, you can check out my Microsoft Redmond Campus Webcam. I put this up a couple of months ago when made the move to building 24.
After trying a few different pieces of Webcam software [...]

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I’m a major fan of the television program Diners Drive-Ins and Dives. This show with Guy Fieri goes across the United States popping into great places with good food. Here in Seattle I’ve eaten a few times at Voula’s Offshore Cafe which has been on the show. You have to eat their Greek Hobo.
I’m actually [...]

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Once again for Mix, my team worked on what we call the live experience. Since PDC 2003, we’ve been working on ways for the folks at home and those attending in person can make a connection to the event.

With  this work we’ve streamed the keynotes live, published breakout sessions for on [...]

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