Eric Fleischman's WebLog : Non-Technical

Superbowl commercials

efleis — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 18:05:00 GMT

I'm not one for the game really, but the commercials are usually a lot of fun to watch. This year was particularly entertaining as a friend took the time to put together a spreadsheet and track what we thought. You know you're in a good crowd when someone is writing VBA in Excel during the game to get that last stat that we just needed to know.

Yes, I'm nerd C. ;)

http://blogs.msdn.com/tyuhas/archive/2007/02/05/superbowl-geeks.aspx

Housekeeping (again)

efleis — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 23:25:00 GMT

I've created a new adamsync tag and updated all of the adamsync posts to point there (in addition to normal tagging). A few people have asked me for this so I figured, what the heck. Apparently people use this blog as an adamsync bootstrapping system...who knew. Maybe I'll post some more on it with new things not yet mentioned....I'll try to do that this week.

Mr. T likes a double-shot, who knew

efleis — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 22:02:00 GMT

I remember watching The A-Team well as a kid. It was my sat evening ritual.
Anyway, I read this post about someone bumping in to him in Starbucks and nearly lost it.

The story of squeaky lobster

efleis — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 00:42:00 GMT

I am rarely as excited about a blog post as I am about this one. Brett has finally told the story of squeaky lobster. Thankfully, it is documented for all of time!
I was at the fateful dinner where it was revealed that a crush was involved. I remember it like it was yesterday...

Housekeeping on categories

efleis — Fri, 26 May 2006 19:16:00 GMT

I have gone ahead and added a new post category....Windows Live. I have started working for the Windows Live group not too long ago so I figured this was likely a good thing to do. I'll still blog about AD for the most part (well, "for the most part" of not much is likely still not much) but will weave a few Windows Live things in as they seem to make sense. Can't really leave AD...it is my roots, after all. :)
(That, and I have no idea what I would write about that is Live related at this point.)

MVP summit has come and gone, but definitely left an impact

efleis — Sun, 02 Oct 2005 22:16:00 GMT

Last week was just crazy.
During the first part of the week I found myself working on a multitude of things. Nothing special to note.
Thurs/Fri/Sat (yes, I work weekends ;)) I spent mostly with MVPs at this year’s MVP Summit. All in all, I like the event. I get to talk to a smart group of people about our products and garner good feedback. We get a heck of a lot of “it would be better if….” sort of comments which are invaluable. I think parts of our products will improve as a result of summit (I know AD and ADAM will be better for it).

Most of my time is spent talking AD & ADAM, but I do cross in to other areas as well. I got to chat with our SBS MVPs (of course, Susan was there, as were countless others I don't have a link to I'm afraid) as well as random other MVPs I know and chat with (like Steve). All in all, a great few days, and a good use of time.

How did I spend my first post-summit hours? I went to bed. For 15 hours.

A record!

efleis — Sun, 21 Aug 2005 00:36:00 GMT

Just paid 2.999 per gallon for gas. My first time paying ~$3 per gallon!
I'm going to keep the receipt. I feel like I'll want to remember this moment when we hit $4/gallon.

MSNBC podcasts....who knew!

efleis — Sun, 24 Jul 2005 22:22:00 GMT

Hey Jeff (my manager) it seems you're not the only one podcasting around here. MSNBC is doing it too. Just stumbled across that today.

So distracted....

efleis — Sun, 29 May 2005 10:04:00 GMT

Lately, I’ve been so distracted.

I have a lot of EEC engagements coming up, one having just wrapped up (though still a few tasks to work on) and a few big ones coming over the next few weeks. Some posts forthcoming on that work, I hope.

I have a few projects that I’m working on, a few I’m really starting to dig in to, it’s about that time. Some real progress on some, others need more attention. I'm really learning there are only so many hours in a day.

And then, I’ve been a little distracted due to posts about an MVPs lost daughter, Mei. Scoble linked, as did Susan and many others. Just can’t stop thinking about it. It really makes you think…..

Got a chance to get to the bloggers meeting at Crossroads.....

efleis — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 08:08:00 GMT

I saw the Scoble post on the event down at Crossroads, and just felt the need to check it out. It was my first bloggers meeting of sort, and I really had no idea what to expect. :)

All in all, very cool. There were a nice mix of people there….a few from MS, largely non-MS. Of the non-MS contingency, we had a few local bloggers and a few MSN Search Champs. The search champs were in town from all over, and it was really cool to hear about them and what they do. There was some podcasting, but since I still don’t totally get the medium, I probably don’t have much to say about that other than the fact that it was there.

I particularly liked being able to mingle and chat with a group of people that was largely technical. While not in my area per se, they all were super knowledgeable in their respective spaces and I got to hear a lot about a few different areas (MSN search & streaming media mainly). I also met one guy in my space (sorta)….Marc Orchant….who told me quite a bit about the product they make for secure shell-type access to a server. I know almost nothing about it, but I plan on doing some reading.

There was also a lot of chatting about blogging as a medium, and more generally adding RSS feeds to…well….everything! :) Ok not literally everything, but a lot of things. Like marketing websites even. I was all about it. I’ve not been part of a conversation like that before. I guess I don’t travel in the right circles. Yet. :)

So all in all, a good first blogging social event. I plan on attending a second.

Same old poster, new fancy home

efleis — Mon, 28 Mar 2005 00:24:00 GMT

It seems that the cat is out of the bag on blogs.technet.com. I, along with many of my counterparts, have made the move to this new platform, and I’m not looking back.

Those of you using links to blogs.msdn.com, well those links should work for a while, but I’d ask you update to the blogs.technet.com version whenever you have a minute. As an added bonus, it seems we have Atom 0.3 support now as well. All of this is found on my blog homepage, of course.

This blog has been somewhat quiet, but I’ve been queueing up content for this move. So from this point forward, hopefully we’ll see some more regular posting. Current thinking is at least once a week, hopefully 2-3 times a week. Let me know how I’m doing.

Time for a new adventure

efleis — Wed, 23 Mar 2005 02:58:00 GMT

I figured, it’s been a while, it’s time for a change. :)

As has been mentioned over on the EEC blog, I’ve switched departments. I’ve had a great time in PSS CPR, but am now trying things from the other side of the house. I’m now an engineer for the Enterprise Engineering Center, a part of Windows Server Development. My focus is very much the same…..AD, ADAM, and a few other related technologies…..but I hope to be more involved in alpha/beta grade code, as well as branch out some in to other areas of distributed systems (namely distributed and parallel computing).

What does this mean for this blog? Hopefully, more. Much more. This blog has been light at best, primarily because I just haven’t given it the time it needs. But I hope to have some more time now to really focus on building AD in this blog, or at a minimum conveying the coolness that I see in it. Either way, I’ll spend more time on AD and ADAM, and hopefully over the weeks/months to come branch off in to some other areas too.

In Redmond, working on a series of posts

efleis — Thu, 11 Nov 2004 03:51:00 GMT

In seeing some MVPs I got insipred to work on a few posts for some much needed topics. First up, attribute types (constructed, operational) and other things about them (indexing and such).

It's been a good day of meeting people, and having meetings with other people that I already knew. Technical posts forthcoming..... (tonight or tomorrow)

Everyone starts somewhere.....

efleis — Fri, 01 Oct 2004 21:48:00 GMT

Welcome to my blog! It’s just getting rolling, so sorry if things are a bit slow to start. I’m definitely a neophyte in the land of bloggers.

As you can probably tell, my name is Eric, and I’m on the Platforms Critical Problem Resolution (CPR) team. Most of my work these days is in the heart of what people call directory services…..Active Directory, Active Directory Application Mode, user authentication (Kerberos, etc.), random associated services (DNS, AD API's, etc.) and a few other odds and ends. Like any good techie, I do wander out of my comfort zone from time to time and touch other components, but there's usually a painful and/or funny story associated with each of these journeys.

While this blog will definitely have a directory services spin, I think that from time to time I’ll wonder out of my little world and touch on other interesting things (where the definition of the word “interesting” is left to the reader). With that, we're off!

(Correction: The first spelling typo's are corrected.....just checking if you were really listening)