a geek and his life
Archive for May, 2007
music
02197 days
in music
music that’s made the last few weeks bearable.
billy talent
black strobe
eagles of death metal
hazel adkins
idaho
tortoise
metric
ratatat
dean martin
spiderbait
the smiths
white stripes
elvis
elliott smith
skinny puppy
portishead
fujiya and miyagi
bad brains
the black keys
ladytron
the donnas (yes, still)
the apples in stereo
lisa loeb
yardbirds
reverend horton heat
billy bragg
the knife
neutral milk hotel
cracker
x
johnny cash
bmrc
le tigre
morphine
magnetic fields
roots
12206 days
in geeky
the official windows live hotmail launch was monday.
a lot of very talented developers put a lot of long hours to make this specific release happen. i have the privilege of working with many of them and am frequently impressed by their desire to ‘do the right thing.’ this is one of the reasons i love my job.
i’ve worked for microsoft for 7.5 years and had something to do with hotmail that entire time. i’ve seen many many talented people have a profound effect on the service we run. many (most, in fact) have moved on, inside or outside the company. some have gone back to school, some have moved north to redmond, some have left to work for other companies, and a fair number have left to pursue careers with our competitors.
it wouldn’t be right to congratulate the current product planning, customer support, business, marketing, dev, and ops teams on this major release and re-branding of hotmail without highlighting the incredible legacy left by their predecessors. there are hundreds of people who’ve worked on hotmail over the past 11+ years, most of them will go unrecognized. hotmail works, in part, because of a number of very wise decisions that were made many years ago.
congratulations to all of you who used to work on hotmail. any success we have is partly your doing.
still here
02211 days
in life
i haven’t posted for months, but endeavor to do so more.
i’ve returned from a great vacation and despite feeling alternately tired and overwhelmed by the flu-like symptoms, i’m pretty optimistic about my life. ;)
a few quick updates:
- i’m procrastinating the surgery but have been managing my diet closely. symptom-free for the most part.
- my kids are now 7 and 3. i feel old, in this context.
- work is going well. i’m frequently reminded of how kick ass my team is. makes my job easy.
i might even post again, later tonight, but figured it was worth getting something out there, even if i don’t.
