One of my favorite little features we did in Windows Phone 7 in the photos experience was what we call “filmstrip” view. Normally you’re in what we call Single Photo Viewer (SPV), where you see one photo at a time - for example here...

  If you’re a visual person, you may enjoy using emoticons – in this example I used (B) and (C): See a list of possible ones here and here . At some point I need to put together a movie script told entirely in emoticons… I’ll put that on my bucket...

  <insert obligatory “I haven’t blogged in so long, so sorry! I’ll try to be better! etc etc> Today I ran across this awesome set of superhero wallpapers , which reminded me of a great “lifehack” for windows phone that I’ve been using for the...

  I made a Shutterfly photo book of photos I’ve taken with WP7 phones running Mango in the last few months and made a photo book with some of my favorites. Some of them are artsy, some funny, some family, etc. Several of them were edited with apps...

Been busting my butt for the last year on this. Looking forward to Monday: http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/microsofts-mwc-digs-come-together-ready-set-is-the-theme/

I have been using two pieces of software a lot lately: the zune client, and Win7. And today I found myself having two very different but still highly emotional reactions to both pieces of software. One was like an instant huge crush-on-first-sight, the...

I apparently haven't had anything to say that's longer than 140 characters lately . Sorry :-)

I was playing around with photos.live.com, added some photos… and clicked on the very nice large bolded “Upload” word twice before realizing that it was simply happy text, trying to guide me towards the upload button. Aghhh.

I was trying to paypal some money to my sister a minute ago, and I sat at the payment page wondering what I’d done wrong. A one minute task suddenly took five minutes as I scratched my head and clicked around to see what I’d missed. Here’s what I saw...

...but the time has come. 11 years at Microsoft, all of them in the Outlook & Exchange teams, and now that's coming to an end. Next Friday will be my last day in Exchange, after which point I will be moving to the Mobile team, to be the lead PM for...

I had a discussion with someone today who said something like "It's amazing how much of the process of software development isn't about software, it's just about communication and cross-group collaboration". My response was that "Actually that's not amazing...

The Seattle PI recently posted about recent changes in the numbers of unique visitors for the major email services such as hotmail, yahoo, gmail, QQ, etc. According to that data, hotmail lost some users. From the first comment: I can't say I'm surprised...

Well, OK, not every where. It's missing in this bathroom. See if you can spot the design flaw in this bathroom stall at a local restaurant: I must have missed the sign on the door:     I have been a fan of CakeWrecks for a long time, I am mighty...

Gee. That image just immediately brings home to me that here I am at the front door of the company store, where I can buy Microsoft products at discount prices. :-) Look at them kaaaraaaazy, wacky kids, talking about Microsoft software!

Raymond's recent blog on strange things that happen when you let people choose their own name (part 3) reminded me to check if my favorite old email address, kclemson5 AT exchange.microsoft.com was still working: yep, still there. As to the history of...

Dare and his wife welcomed baby Nathan into the world last week. It sounds like it was a pretty stressful week too. Being a new parent is such a stressful experience, sometimes I wonder how the human race survived at all. When I struggled through it...

Dare's post about human nature touches on UAC in Vista: How do you design a dialog prompt to warn users about the potential risk of an action they are about to take if they are so intent on clicking OK and getting the job done that they forget that there...

I've gotten completely hooked. My username is 'whoosp', and thanks to EA's fantastic web integration, you can see all my creations and sporecasts on the web (there's nothing quite like the first time you see a pristine new planet, and populate it with...

A while ago, I did my civic duty and upgraded my XP box at home to SP3... and then immediately noticed that my beloved addressbar on the taskbar, by far one of my most favorite features of the OS for many years running, was missing. The bar itself wasn...

I posted a couple of months ago about signing up for my first half marathon... and I ran it last week. About 2 hours, 20 minutes... didn't stop running the entire time[1]. I'd like to say that two hours later I was out on the town wearing high heels like...

I saw this sign while on vacation. I think this sign should be in a graphic design puzzle book, one of those "Can you find everything that's wrong with this picture?". Two weeks later, my eyes are still hurting from the maniacal number of fonts...

I just can't resist sharing some of my favorite photos from our trip to Hawaii. There was amazing snorkeling right outside the condo we were renting, with tons of turtles, fish, and even a couple of eels:       David and I had a lot of...

It wasn't enough to be the first product team at microsoft to start a team blog , oh no no... We didn't stop there. We recently branched out into song . :-) [Update 8/11: Todd Bishop blogged about this on his Seattle PI Microsoft blog too. Way...

But when I get mails like this from JCrew (or the recent NetFlix issue), it almost immediately increases my trust of the company - any company that's willing to come out and so broadly say "we made a mistake" is a company I am more likely to...