The month and quarter end with a return to productivity from home after last week’s excitement : Commuting Options Selected since 12 June 2006 Mode of Transport Number of Invocations Telecommuted 164 Walked 218 Walked to the Bus 17 Drove 192 None (did not compete) 143 Other Transportation Employed Airline Segments Flown 11 Month- and quarter-end means.. bonus charts! Commuting Options Selected March, 2009 Mode of Transport Number of Invocations Telecommuted 16 Drove 1 None (did not compete) 5 Commuting

Spent the week dealing with what’s been diagnosed as an intestinal infection. Not recommended and very limiting to productivity, which was nonexistent this week : Commuting Options Selected since 12 June 2006 Mode of Transport Number of Invocations Telecommuted 162 Walked 218 Walked to the Bus 17 Drove 192 None (did not compete) 143 Other Transportation Employed Airline Segments Flown 11 I’m home and the worst is behind me. I’m hoping to have my nose back to the grindstone on Monday.. -wp

Another full week of telecommuting, this one culminating with a celebration of the vernal equinox : Commuting Options Selected since 12 June 2006 Mode of Transport Number of Invocations Telecommuted 162 Walked 218 Walked to the Bus 17 Drove 192 None (did not compete) 138 Other Transportation Employed Airline Segments Flown 11 Have a great weekend! Happy spring! -wp

After last week’s brief foray into internal combustion, this week marked a return to normal (or at least what passes for normal in these parts) as I returned to a full week of telecommuting : Commuting Options Selected since 12 June 2006 Mode of Transport Number of Invocations Telecommuted 157 Walked 218 Walked to the Bus 17 Drove 192 None (did not compete) 138 Other Transportation Employed Airline Segments Flown 11 Have a great weekend! -wp

Here’s another seasonal query for you : select datediff ( dd , '10/20/2008' , '3/3/2009' ) ----------- 134 The significance of the query was alluded to in last week’s commuting post. This past Tuesday I had to drive to Tampa for a laptop repair. This was my first drive to work since last October 20 in Redmond. That’s 134 days between drives to work! I telecommuted the rest of the week: Commuting Options Selected since 12 June 2006 Mode of Transport Number of Invocations Telecommuted 152 Walked 218

February closes with a full week of telecommuting: Commuting Options Selected since 12 June 2006 Mode of Transport Number of Invocations Telecommuted 148 Walked 218 Walked to the Bus 17 Drove 191 None (did not compete) 138 Other Transportation Employed Airline Segments Flown 11 Months don’t get much greener than this one was.. Commuting Options Selected February, 2009 Mode of Transport Number of Invocations Telecommuted 20 .. but March likely won’t feature the same unanimity. As I mentioned yesterday

UPDATED 21 FEBRUARY 2009 in the cold morning light: grammar in the introduction and #s 1, 5, 10, 12, 15, 18, and 20; new links in #1; and new information in #18. UPDATED 21 FEBRUARY 2009 later in the day because I just remembered I've been to Texas (#9, #11). It’s the third Friday in February, which means pitchers and catchers have been in camp for a week. I want to write a Friday night blog post.. do I dive into my folder of technical posts awaiting my attention, which is deeper than it’s ever been?

As predicted last week , another full week of telecommuting has that category rocketing into third place on the list, surpassing None : : Commuting Options Selected since 12 June 2006 Mode of Transport Number of Invocations Telecommuted 143 Walked 218 Walked to the Bus 17 Drove 191 None (did not compete) 138 Other Transportation Employed Airline Segments Flown 11 Telecommuted should be ahead of Drove by the summer, so stayed tuned.. Have a great weekend.. -wp

..but, once again, the dark underbelly of human nature has shown itself in my trackback pool.. Back in March of 2008, I went off on a little two - post rant about for-fee aggregators.  At the time, I said: For awhile now, I've been aware that there are several sites out there which are reposting the RSS feeds from several Microsoft blogs, including this one, along with advertising which they have sold.  I'm not going to post any URLs, because I don't want to drive any traffic in their direction. 

Our weather pendulum continues, as this week’s low temperatures are above last week’s highs, and this week’s highs.. well, it was 85 degrees on Wednesday. A pretty wonderful place to spend the week telecommuting from: Commuting Options Selected since 12 June 2006 Mode of Transport Number of Invocations Telecommuted 138 Walked 218 Walked to the Bus 17 Drove 191 None (did not compete) 138 Other Transportation Employed Airline Segments Flown 11 Note that Telecommuted has now caught up with None, which