August 2005 – laurenlavoie.com

Start Me Up

Today was the 10-year anniversary of Windows 95. I wouldn’t have known, if not for the out of office message from someone on my team this afternoon, who was attending a 10-year anniversary celebration. His OOF message also had a link to a great little tidbit from Raymond Chen describing his experience at the launch party 10 years ago.

And one of the comments on Raymond’s blog post was pretty amazing too:

As I have for the last 5 or 6 years, I’m having a “birthday party” for Windows95 today. For real. I know that sounds totally nuts (and it probably is to some degree), but Windows95 took us all out of the dark ages and into the new frontier. Me and my co-coders will get some cake and soda and play “Start Me Up” from a Win95 CD… Nerds at their worst… I mean best.

I hope that the release of Vista meets with some excitement as well. :)

Robert Ingebretsen Blogs

Robert Ingebretsen has joined the ranks of the Avalon team bloggers! Robby is a Program Manager on the Component Model team, and his specialties include resources, styling, templates, and other aspects related to enabling designers and developers to work together to create visually compelling applications (and he also knows a good deal about controls). He has some interesting content up there already, and I look forward to seeing lots more from him in the future. Stop by and say hello!

Geek Couple

I never feel quite right posting much personal information here these days, especially as this seems to have morphed into more of a work-related blog than a personal one. But maybe we’ll pretend that this news item is work-related, since it involves two Microsoft employees: KW and I are getting married. It’s pretty crazy stuff… except that, well, it’s not actually that crazy at all.

We’re easing our way into the wedding planning process. We expect that it won’t be too too stressful, since we’re both pretty good at making decisions and just don’t want to be stupid about things. So far, people have been impressed at our ability to execute on this stuff, so I hope it continues that way.

We probably won’t set up a silly wedding website at a silly domain like LaurenAndKennyAreGettingMarried.com. I think Kenny and I own enough domains between the two of us. I may, however, dedicate part of this site to a bit of practical/logistical wedding info if necessary. I’ll try not to be too obnoxious about it.