Archive for August, 2005

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 […]

You Say You Want a Revolution

My roommate and I were up late playing Karaoke Revolution two nights ago, and I’m still feeling the effects — my throat is scratchy, and I’m sleeepy. I think I need to limit myself to only playing on weekends, and perhaps only for a certain amount of time per day (in order to protect the […]

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 […]

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 […]

Engines Pumping and Thumping in Time

A couple of interesting mods to Hybrid vehicles: improve the gas mileage of your Toyota Prius using solar panels, or by storing an extra battery in the trunk.
It seems like these designs may still need a bit of work, but perhaps they’ll be more crystallized a few years down the road when I’m ready to […]

California Knows How to Party

I’m going to the OC for the weekend to chill with friends from high school — only one of whom actually lives there anymore. But a few of them will be in town to visit their parents, since this is what is known as “summer vacation” to those who get some notion of a time […]

It’s Like Rain…

I love Seattle, really. But rain in mid-August? Come on guys, let’s get serious.

Greece Photos

After 5 months of having this new website, I finally got around to re-posting the Greece photos.
That was an awesome vacation (and it was almost a year ago!) I’ll need to hold out until December for the next one.

Olympics and Victoria Photos

New photos are up!
Photos from the Olympic Mountains with Kenny, his cousin David, and David’s girlfriend Julie from two weekends ago:

…and photos from my surprise birthday weekend in Victoria:

1 Month!

One month (plus one day) left until PDC 2005, and counting!
We’re all in the full swing of PDC prep mode over here in Avalon WPF land, and it’s fun. September will be an exciting time.