I talked for a little while with John Battelle today, the founder of Federated Media (and co-founder of Wired , Industry Standard , author). CoasterBuzz was recently accepted into his "federation" for ad representation, and I have to say that he really, really gets it. We talked about quite...

It's strange how a number of different posts on my blog get comments practically every day. The big ones have to do with the failure of US education, my HP laptop from four years ago with the broken power jack, Xbox Live support sucking and the entire app/page/control event cycle based on pre-beta ASP...

I'm closing in on a month now at Microsoft. OK, not really, because with the holidays and a week out for a pre-hired trip, I'm obviously still in a bit of a ramp up mode. Although I checked in some code last week, which is very exciting. In any case, I've taken my share of cheap shots about the Borg...

After almost a year and a half, I'm leaving my dev position in Server and Tools Online to be a program manager in the SQL Azure BI organization. My motivation for the change probably doesn't matter much to people reading this blog, but I will say that I'll greatly miss the people I worked with in STO...