Long time, no blog.

I'm just starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel... and I have been "on vacation" for two weeks now. Why is time off such hard work? Because Paula and I are moving to Ireland.

I'm not leaving Microsoft... or even really leaving Windows Live Mail/Hotmail. Microsoft is adding to its development workforce based in Dublin and I'll be going over there to work on Windows Live Mail with a couple developers.

We're going to sell our house and (as you saw earlier in the blog) I needed to finish the bathroom I started. I also needed to finish off a project I started of replacing the trim throughout the house. Combine that with a house hunting trip to Ireland, meeting with realtors, packing up some of stuff to stage the house and having a garage sale I've been running ragged.

Things are starting to ease up, however. The house goes on MLS tonight and there is only one small bit of trim to finish in the bathroom and I'll be all done.

And Paula will be happy because I now have the energy to shave again.

Six minutes of inspired dancing by "Inspirational Comedian" Judson Laipply.

And they're going to make it really easy on me too!  I'm so excited I could just spit:

Greetings, Everything sounds well and I must commend that the ( 2001 Corvette Convertible, very low mileage, Mag Red, Six Speed ) in excellent condition and am okay with the prize i will like to know it  f. i was locate in PA Reading city . For convenient and easy transaction, I have a liable shipping agent who'd be responsible for the shipping as soon as you get the money to ur account  for the ( 2001 Corvette Convertible, very low mileage, Mag Red, Six Speed ).I will therefore need the following information of yours to forward wire the money to u. your BAnk Name........  Bank ADDRESSL.. ACCOUNT NUMBER ......  ROUNTING NUMBER..  CELL/OFFICE/HOME PHONE NUMBER. I await your soonest reply.

The mail came from a Canadian Yahoo account, I guess that explains the typos and lack of command on the English language.

If you take a pocket full of change, segregate it by color then examine the coins you'll find we have one colored coin in America... and it has Abraham Lincoln on the face.

Think about it...

On a related note, is it any coincidence that paper money and envy share the same color?

While waiting for Windows XP to install on my freshly installed Virtual PC I found my way over to YouTube and fell under the spell of this David Hasselhoff video. The concept for the video obviously came from a poor translation of something Tommy Chong wrote in his own vomit after an all-night bender.  The special effects appear to have been done by the creepy geek who hangs out in the computer lab (and not the smart geek you want to have fix stuff, the other guy with the really poor hygiene).

And yet... I couldn't take my eyes off it...

I downloaded this one at the beginning of April, so Mercedes-Benz's mixed tape 11 is certainly not brand new, but hey... it's free music.  Grab it while it's still there.

Ever see people standing around a lobster tank trying to decide which one they should request?

Several weeks back Ina Fried from c|net came to campus and interviewed a bunch of people. Her piece is now up on c|net news.com. It's a good read to give folks a little glimpse into the team.

Ina spent the majority of the day with people around campus and a lunch in a conference room with some of us "old folks" from Hotmail. I'm not that old... really, honest. I wasn't even "acquired" with Hotmail. I just have shown a decided lack of vision and stuck with the team for the past six years. Demonstrating the power of the sound-byte, I was only with her for the lunch part but ended up with my own side bar. As a result I'm now working on growing a mullet.

Hey Warhol. is this going to be deducted from my fifteen minutes?