I meant to.  I really did. But I got sick last week , and my energy level has been slow enough to come back that my focus was entirely elsewhere until about six last night. I panicked.  I gave fleeting consideration to throwing something hasty together, but everything I came up with struck me as lame, abusive to my audience, or (frequently) both.  The fact that most of it also wasn’t funny was also a factor in my silence. I slept soundly, which is always nice after such a difficult

No matter your stance on the war in Iraq and the people who are arguing about it, this is simply brilliant. I'm humbled by the fact that my best laugh of the day came to me courtesy of a group of people in a war zone half a world away from their homes. Our troops are some of the best people in the world. -wp

On the heels of yesterday's Ed Helms link , here 's another humorous Microsoft video (low bandwidth here ; high bandwidth here ) outlining the implementation of our new "We Share Your Pain" program. If anybody tries to bring me a new office chair, I'm certainly going to examine it very closely. Enjoy! -wp

This is pretty funny.. A friend alerted me to the fact that Microsoft Recruiting recently teamed with The Daily Show 's Ed Helms to produce an "expos é" of Microsoft. Check it out via Windows Media Player here . -wp