Flyover Country

Up is down! White is black! Cats and dogs living in sin! Program Managers doing graphic design work! The horror!
My friend Doug, one of our Product Managers on Visual Studio Express, contacted me in a bit of a panic a few weeks ago. It turns out that they were launching a brand-new Visual [...]

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Girls who go “Woo!”

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Love it or hate it, Twitter’s obviously on fire. Even though (or perhaps because) the idea is so ludicrously simple, there’s clearly a great deal of momentum behind the site and platform. It’s always helpful to be reminded that such things come from very humble, plain beginnings. I only hope that I have the opportunity [...]

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The turkey is finishing up in the oven, the pie is made, the mashed potatoes are ready. I’m drinking a beer…Which means it’s clearly time to read TechMeme! My girlfriend (ok, she’s really the one who’s reading TechMeme, which is cool in its own right) noticed a post over on On10 about a "clock" vaguely [...]

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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 has been a fantastic experience, and [...]

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So, for the past hour I’ve been trying to figure out why a website I’m working simply fails to render on IE 6. I finally traced it down to a rogue button element, which appeared to be well-constructed but was still making IE 6 barf spectacularly. In the off-chance this ever happens to anyone else, [...]

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A friend just forwarded this link my way. It’s a collection of hand-lettered paintings (?) depicting spam subject lines. Absolutely beautiful and terribly entertaining.
 

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