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Nov 13, 2007
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New beginnings (I left Microsoft)

About two weeks ago, I made the decision to leave Microsoft. It wasn’t an easy decision for me to make, but the opportunity I had handed to me was one I couldn’t easily pass up. I’m really going to miss my team; working on Popfly for the past year...

Jun 29, 2007
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Gone for a bit

I’ll be in Minnesota for the next week celebrating my sister’s 34th birthday and my 25th birthday. Posting may be sparse. In the mean time, here are a few albums you should listen to: The Decemberists - The Crane Wife Modest Mouse - We Were...

May 16, 2007
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Just a few random updates

I’m revising the look and feel of my blog. Please let me know if anything looks particularly wonky, or if something is egregiously broken. Also, just as a followup from my tale of laptop woe the other day, I wanted to mention that I ordered a sli...

The ‘big’ payoff

Hillel Cooperman (who is one of my heroes, by the way) writes what I think is the best-and most sobering-blog post I’ve read in a very long time. Bear in mind that when I say “sobering,” I don’t mean it in a ‘screw your startup dreams and go becom...

Mar 09, 2007
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Update on end of year predictions

I made eight predictions at the end of last year. With 2007 now about 18% finished, how am I doing? Apple has not released Leopard yet. We'll see what happens. I have a sneaking suspicion that its UI will actually end up looking very much like...

Feb 27, 2007
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Paved with good intentions

I’ll admit it: I made a rookie mistake when I migrated this weblog over to WordPress. I had been neglecting my blog for over a month, but even so, FeedBurner reported that I had more subscribers to my blog than ever before. I spent the better part...

Feb 19, 2007
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Where you been?

I’ve been laying low for the past month, and my posting was sporadic even before that. Part of the reason for that was the Christmas-New Years blogging deadzone. But the bulk of the reason was I changed jobs. It’s pretty common for Microsofties to...

Dec 31, 2006
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A few predictions for the New Year

As this year draws to an end, I wanted to offer a few predictions for what I think 2007 will bring: Apple will release a new UI with Mac OS X 10.5 that is reminiscent of iTunes 7, and I will spend the rest of the year slagging it. ...

Dec 13, 2006
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Don’t do what Donny Don’t does: Email Edition

I get a lot of email everyday. And by a lot, I mean that it totals into the thousands of items*. Seriously. Much of this is addressed to various internal mailing lists to which I subscribe, such as an Xbox Discussion alias, or Visual Studio UI dis...

Dec 08, 2006
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Update: Mac developers team up to help out sick kids

On the sixth, I wrote that all of my proceeds from iRooster on December 7th would be donated to Penny Arcade’s Child’s Play Charity to help out sick kids in children’s hospitals. The outpouring of generosity was amazing! I ended up collecting $200...