Ok, this is a true rant… fair warning (if you didn’t get it from the title). I am sometimes amazed not only by the ability of people to follow simple instructions, but also by the lack of common sense of those people to realize the correct way to do common...

Last week, we had the TechReady conference here in Seattle for all the Microsoft field personnel to come find out what’s going on with products, learn how to use them, sell them, and see cool demos. After doing my presentation on the *exciting* topic...

Hello, my name is Robert, and I have Attention Deficit Disorder (A.D.D.) Ok, so there’s no 12-step program for Attention Deficit Disorder, though I know a lot of people who would like to think it’s some made-up diagnosis and people just “get over it”...

I have to admit it. I really wasn’t interested in joining Twitter until I got the job working on community efforts for the System Center Interop product group. I was still in Twitter denial (see “ Five Stages of Twitter Acceptance ”). The reason I was...

There’s an old, often-used phrase to describe a person who does a lot of different things - “Jack of all trades, master of none”. Often times it’s used as a negative connotation to say that someone it’s as skilled as someone else at a particular job,...