I ordered it a few weeks ago, but they're behind on production, so it took until yesterday to ship (and supposedly is arriving today - hurrah for online up-to-the-minute package tracking!). At first, I was cynical and gave a lot of weight to the negative...

To find out about this .

Since you asked ... 130 words (currently position 1209 of 423595) When I was in college, I once broke some piece of my machine, this sweet Gateway P-100 (I chose to wait a few extra weeks until the P-100 came out, I didn't want to get that slow-arse P...

OK, any softies... check this one out , it's making the rounds. I am dying laughing. Guys... that was great. Thank you for putting yourself out there and giving the rest of us a laugh. And nice touch wearing The Blue Shirt. :-)

The Shane Company has a great example of a slick usability trick in their print-out ring sizer , for you to see which size ring you need, they have pictures of coins and a ruler on the printout so you can ensure that the printout wasn't scaled to an inaccurate...

  On http://shop.lego.com , while trying to check out, I got to this UI for filling out my account information: Guess what, folks... my first name is initials. The only place you'll see or hear "Kathryn" is when my mom is very angry at...

I have worked in UX for over a year now , and nearly every single day, I learn something new from my team or from work we're doing about how to improve the user experience. One of the general principles we try to operate on is of course the classic...

Frank Shaw asks . When I was a kid, all of my friends' parents tried to get them to read more. My parents, on the other hand, were regularly annoyed with me because I would bring a book to every social event I ever attended. There was even the time that...

The Windows Server & Home Server teams have done some fantastic advertising campaigns recently, as pointed out in this article . Serious, serious kudos to the people behind those campaigns. They're clever, but they get the point across. I always learn...

My husband outdid himself this year... he got me a Garmin Forerunner 305 , a running watch that has a built-in GPS and heart rate monitor and a bunch of other goodies to help with tracking your progress in outdoor running. I've really been enjoying running...

Occasionally I have data that looks like this, sorted on the "Value" column: It's always annoyed me that Excel couldn't read my mind and figure out that I wanted to sort them in "High, Medium, Low" order. Recently I found out that it is possible...

Is a nice read , covering a lot of interesting topics, some of the more meaningful points as I see them: The most valuable course he ever took was the one he dropped after one lecture. It was valuable because it convinced him he shouldn't go to...

If you're like me and do a lot of copying content from other applications into Word and Outlook, you're probably very accustomed to using the paste smarttag to choose whether or not to use the source or destination formatting on paste. If you're tired...

For my family, that means: (it's a silverlight app that lights one candle per night) Thanks, Synergist!

Next time you invite someone out of the blue to "help out with a demo of video conferencing", make clear that it's in front of a live audience first thing . :-) Hope I didn't scandalize them too much. And if any of my readers are from that Atlanta...

It started out simple, really - just on dejanews, as a way of finding out what conversations I've been missing that I really should participate in. Then later as more websites sprung up, it started to become a passing fancy - who's referenced my name...

It is a testament to the intransigence of the human spirit that for the last 6 years of my life I have right clicked on that little icon on my taskbar and chosen to remove the "Language Bar" from the taskbar, only to have it pop back up at some later...

These are pretty funny . And while I'm at it, here is the Coolest. Costume. Ever. And it just so happened to be on my kid: She was quite a hit. More than once a random person in the hallway stopped to take a picture of her. And for a nice change...

I am thinking there's a lot of comedic potential here, for exchange geeks like me at least. :-)

Various teams across the company have created what are called 'microsites' aimed at recruiting, telling potential candidates what it's like to join Exchange.[3] We did one too, as we announced on the blog . I am a huuuuge fan of our site (ok I helped...

As I mentioned, I just started the 20/20 program at the proclub. As part of getting ready for starting the program, I went through an exam which told me such lovely statistics as my weight (eh), body fat percentage (whooo boy), flexibility (poor), strength...

I just joined the 20/20 program at the proclub in order to get myself into shape, and as part of my workouts I've taken up running which - shockingly - I am enjoying . I still suck at it and can't run for long at a time but after two weeks I can tell...

As I mentioned a couple months ago , we have been working on two new OWA themes. I was secretive then because I wasn't sure if we'd be able to ship them in SP1 or not, but thanks to the hard work of several designers and developers we got them in. And...

A coworker asked me today if I knew how to count up the total number of folders in his mailbox, in the process of troubleshooting a bug related to having a large number of folders. I had an old script that recursed through a mailbox to count the total...

You know how there's a warning tag on hairdryers that says not to use it while showering? I've always figured that the reason for those stupid warnings is that someone somewhere did use it while showering, and then the relatives of the deceased then sued...