As I have been known to do from time to time, I recently published a new interview on Channel9 . This one is with two brilliant guys that work with Network Access Protection. Check out the video here . I'm always on the lookout for interesting people...

Today is internationally recognized as Teacher Appreciation Day . There are a few teachers that stand out as having a huge impact on me that I wanted to specifically call out: My fourth grade teacher, Ms. Doxey. She was a strict, no nonsense teacher...

Daniel and Tony are a couple of the colorful personalities in the worldwide Evangelist/Advisor community. They're doing the Virtual IT Forum this year, and put together a slick video getting ready for it. check it out! Speaking of IT Forum - I'll be attending...

my longtime friend Steve has printed a long list of stuff he'd like to do, but probably never will . I've been thinking about making a list like this myself, and had a few of them jotted down on a post-it note on my desk already. Here's mine: Fire warning...

At the company meeting a few weeks back, Microsoft announced a new bus service for employees. The buses have wifi access. One of the pick up spots is 1.6 miles from my house. I'm always happy to let someone else do the driving. I need to get some logistics...

A few months ago, I ordered several copies of the stellar "Windows Vista Security Guide" to give away as part of a program I was working on. In classic left-hand-doesn't-know-what-the-right-hand-is-doing fashion, someone else ordered and gave away something...

Dear Mom, I'm really sorry I haven't called or visited. Remember back in May and June when I told you I was traveling a lot? I went out and met with a bunch of Microsoft customers that were doing some really cool stuff with our technology. Turns out we...

You know what's the scariest thing about this parody ? It's really not that much of a parody. I followed the whole 'shorthand' conversation perfectly. We really talk like that. After 10 years here, I just never realized it was odd.

last year I blogged about a dream I had that included in its cast the author of a popular Accordion blog . At the time, I told him I'd shout drinks the next time I was in Toronto. It's really too bad that I didn't remember that I'd said such a thing before...

I'm back from New Zealand, and another fascinating customer visit. Guiness Gallagher is a botique consultancy, offering legal, accounting and other services to worldwide clients. They're a small company, but manage to compete and win business against...

I'm back from Brussels, the trip I hinted at in a post last week . It was a fantastic visit to a country I hadn't visited before, and I really did an injustice by not extending my visit a little longer. The customer I visited, the Chemical Engineering...

when a friend asked me where I was traveling this week, I gave him the title of this post as a clue. He replied "oh, um... DC?" No, not DC. I have no idea how those items relate to DC at all. Have you got a better guess? I'm visiting a customer that's...

I'll bet that 90% of blog posts about Las Vegas have "Viva Las Vegas" as the title. The other 10% use Lost Wages. Sorry, after two days here, I got nothin. I was in Vegas for the Interop show, again, helping out the NAP team with some demos. Flying in...

I'm getting ready to fly down to Vegas tomorrow for Interop, so I thought I better take a minute and recap the trip I made last week to Los Angeles for WinHEC. WinHEC is the Windows Hardware Engineers Conference, so the audience was pretty specialized...

(I'm cheating a little bit. This post is a variation on an email that was sent to all the IT Evangelists as part of a weekly mailing my team at corp is doing.) I’m getting ready to head to WinHEC today and Interop next week to do some demos for the NAP...

I was catching up on some feed reading today, and found this entry from one of my associates, who also got called to Jury Duty last Monday. HIs story is a little better than mine. I was there for 2 days, and was selected for a case panel on both days...

The whole month of April came and went without a post here. Fresh on the heels of my display of superiority over Steve when he nearly missed the month of February . Oops. I spent half the month on vacation , so you really can't hold that part against...

Ok, I thought the blogging embargo on this wasn't going to be lifted until mid-next week, but since everyone seems to be posting about it, I'll add my two cents: yes, it's amazing, and yes, we've known about it internally for a little while, but couldn...

I'm testing the 'delay publishing until' feature of Community Server. There's some pretty cool news coming out this weekend, but I'm going to be away from the computer, so I want to blog it now and schedule the post to go up after the announcement is...

Another interview I did for Channel9 is up, this one an interview with two of the guys at Microsoft that make our intranet go. We ended up talking a lot about just the sheer scale of our SharePoint deployment, and what it takes to upgrade and backup an...

I got to be a guest blogger on the NAP team blog today. You can read my post here .

Friday night I did something that I'd promised myself I'd never, ever do. I installed World of Warcraft . It's Jason's fault, really. He's been talking about it on and off lately, and he really hyped it up to me in the car back from lunch on Friday. I...

Another Channel 9 interview has gone live, this time with the authors of the Vista Security Guide. Check it out here . This is a pretty ambitious undertaking: Figure out what settings you can adjust in the OS that make it more secure than it is by default...

As others have blogged already, Microsoft hosted our worldwide technical community last week at a special conference here in Seattle. I got to spend a couple days putting faces with the blogs and names in the ITE community that I've been chatting with...

One of the new security features in Windows Vista is BitLocker. The technology allows you to fully encrypt your hard drive, so that in the event that someone 'unsavory' gains possession of your machine, they won't automatically get access to all your...