My friends and I are headed to Rio for Carnival in exactly 31 days. Every time we speak to someone about Rio though, all we hear is how dangerous the city is. One of our good friends’s girlfriend is Brazilian, and she has told us multiple stories about how her guy friends have gotten roofied there. However, everyone we know has come back from Rio alive or unscathed. Which makes me think that one of us is likely not going to make it back.
I suggested that in the circumstance that something were to go wrong, that we sacrifice Drama to the attackers – that they take him and keep him and in return let us go. However, Jake had a better suggestion.
The following took place after my trek back from the gym this evening:Continue reading
Simple – I wanted more control over my blog. Blogs.msdn.com and community server have been great, but I seem to need more than the capabilities that community server gives me in terms of manageability and customization.
While Microsoft doesn’t care that I use my blog to write about things unrelated to Microsoft, there have been readers who’ve asked me why I write about wanting to marry Kaavya Vishwanathan, for example.
I’ve been wanting to use Wordpress forever now. I’ve heard personally from Matt as well as from other sources about how good the engine is, how the user base is growing so rapidly, the availability of all these 3rd party plugins etc. etc. (not to mention the ability to use Facebook Connect for my commenters to leave comments on my blog via Disqus) Microsoft and the IIS team in particular has been investing a lot of time in PHP on IIS7 and Windows Server 2008, and I want to put our theories in to practice. Continue reading
I’m just as perplexed as anyone else about the commercials. I’ve been following our advertising story closely for the last couple of months right up to our launch on 9/4. But this cartoon nails the way I (and most of my friends seem to) feel:
I’ve been a Microsoft Evangelist for a few years now. From an inside-out perspective, it seems like things are going well. We spend a lot of time before a fiscal year begins laying out our goals. And typically, we do the best job we can to execute. But the thing about this job is that you don’t really know what you are missing. Is meeting the goals we set out for ourselves good enough? As Microsoft ambassadors, are we doing what we are supposed to be doing?
So, help me help you. What would you do if you were a Microsoft evangelist? I understand that I haven’t defined either what an evangelist is, what we do, or what our typical goals tend to be. But if you had the opportunity to set your own goals, and be an evangelist at Microsoft, what would you do?
I’m proud to announce the beta launch of thatsWhatSheTwittered.com. The co-founders gave me an early preview of the site. This has to be one of the most brilliant ideas I’ve ever come across, and I’m proud to be a part of this new venture.
thatsWhatSheTwittered (starts with a small ‘t’) is an amazing concept. Here’s how it works :
For every tweet that you twitter, you will get an automatic reply from _twst that says "thats what she twittered". If you think about what that means contextually, you’ll understand that nothing has ever made more sense. Ever. For example, check out this thwead (thats a ‘twitter thread’, also a cute way to say ‘thread’) :
Every interaction with _twst will automatically make its way on to thatsWhatSheTwittered.com and will appear in a threaded fashion (that is much friendlier than what appears on quotably.com). The site is currently in private beta.
However, Jake had a better suggestion. 
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