You know you're not really American when ....

Someone e-mails the team saying they have 2 pounds of "Smarties" to celebrate their 2 year anniversary, and you think of the chocolate smarties (sold everywhere except the US), and not the sugar ones (Only in America).

Interestingly, Live places the chocolate one first while Google has the American ( Read more... )

I got a poke from Lacey to post an entry. Here goes ... what has happened in the last few weeks in reverse order.

• Today, I ran into a crash in Outlook (yeah, what's new?) I broke into the debugger, and proceeded to try to file a bug by coping the callstack. To my dismay, I couldn't copy or paste anything, text, or screenshots. After investigating ( Read more... )

It's been a while since I posted (my last post was on Pi day), so here's some random ramblings again.

A few weeks ago, wavilyem, a friend from high school, visited a few friends in Seattle (me included, of course). Me having done almost everything in downtown, we ended up doing a bit of walking around Fremont (a town near downtown), which I haven't really ( Read more... )

Crap. Almost forgot... Happy Pi day!

I came down with a mild cold over the weekend. I actually was fine to go to work this morning, but it was getting a bit worse over the course of the afternoon, so I decided that my sniffles would be a bit too distracting for me and everyone around me at orchestra. So I sent an e-mail to the orchestra director:

Hey Jim ( Read more... )

I recently added to the quotes page (not having done so in a few months time), and after updating my own AIM profile, I realized I haven't read anyone else's profile in a long time (nor do I read away messages anymore). Lacey gets a gold star though for having the most amusing profile ( Read more... )

A little bit exaggerated, but still funny:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAGr3mVVUwE&search=microsoft%20ipod

I wonder if alarm system companies requested the is_computer_on_fire function. Maybe Windows would get more market share if we implemented this :)

Lesson of the day: headphones are much more comfortable without glasses. That's one more reason to continue wearing contacts to work (I didn't yesterday).

Got forwarded this video of the photobooth skit on the Tonight show. It's hilarious.

The Office organization has jumped on the blogging bandwagon. In particular, a program manager for one of my feature areas is blogging about it, and in the screenshots, you can see a few of the features I've been working on. Even my intern project, the "minibar" (it's the vertical "Navigation Pane" button on the left) makes an appearance. It's a ( Read more... )