Since my current team owns PDC, I’ll be in LA from Sep 12-16. I’m hoping to hook up with as many old friends as possible. You can find me at any of the IE events, or send me an e-mail if you want to try hooking up elsewhere at the conference.
I have been a faithful subscriber to Mark Rittman’s Oracle Weblog for a long time, because he tells the war stories about what it’s like doing large scale implementations of Oracle in the real world. The kind of real-world experience he communicates is worth far more than any marketing fluff or sanitized documentation from [...]
About five years ago, I switched from field consulting at Microsoft to a job in the product groups. I loved working in the field, but wanted to
shift to the PM role for awhile. In part, this was because my wife and I were about to have a baby, and one of us [...]
After flattening my machine a couple of times, and trying over 6 months, I finally got MSN Desktop Search to work on my machine. This was necessary because one of my installs (maybe WinFX beta) broke LookOut, and I absolutely can’t live without full-text search of my e-mail.
So now Outlook is almost unusable. [...]
I’m convinced that someone at Microsoft has been deliberately injecting words into the industry lexicon. My mind keeps track of relative word frequencies, and every now and then I’ll see a new outlier pop up — first in some BillG and other keynote speeches, then spreading throughout the employee base, and then into the [...]