October 2008 Entries

  • I can has breaths?

    Well, that's done. The last few weeks have definitely been "interesting". I've been involved in the launch of two new sites for MSDN: Oslo and Azure (and the WCF REST Starter Kit, but that's just a few pages). It's meant a lot of meetings (remotely), converting numerous documents using various internal tools (each with their own quirks), re-encoding videos, and loads of email. Hopefully the sites will be helpful and informative. Let me know if not. Chris has the welcome message, but I figured I'd take some time to point out a few of the highlights (at least in my view) of...

  • Why I don't use all {insert company name}'s software

    <rant> I was visiting a customer this week, and during one meeting someone expressed, "You are using a Mac, and you use Google Mail? Is this what we should expect from an ex-Microsoft employee?" (Actually, I think the overall intent was different from that, and there was a bit more subtext, but hopefully you get the picture.) I ignored the comment, but it got me thinking, and an event later that day led to this post. I went to look for the distance between two points. Live Maps via Firefox on OS X: Google Maps via Firefox on OS X: Yahoo Maps via Firefox...

  • So true

    So true... sadly, so true: