the end of april marks my two and a half year anniversary at microsoft as a full time employee, but years ago a clear path towards microsoft emerged. i was certified on windows nt 4.0 in 1998 as a mcse after 5 years as a network administrator of microsoft...

tonight i was looking for a completely unrelated video on channel 9 and what do i stumble across?  a channel 9 video from my favorite musician - ice cube!  why on earth is ice cube being interviewed on channel9 video ?  microsoft silverlight...

just read the following on the windows live dev portal http://dev.live.com/blogs/devlive/archive/2008/04/22/279.aspx . it looks like the tech preview is full at the moment, but you can put yourself on the waiting list at www.mesh.com .

last week i was honored to spend 3 days with mike niehaus. we visited with a number of customers and also attended two user group meetings - cwug (chicago windows user group) and iwug (indiana windows user group).

i recently came across the club live site.  it allows you to raise donations to either schools or a non profit charity of your choice just by searching or playing games at club live.  check it out at http://www.searchandgive.com