Me: I live in Silicon Valley with my wife, child and cat. I have worked at Microsoft since I graduated from College, both in the Macintosh Business Unit on products such as Outlook Express, Entourage, IE, and Virtual PC and in Windows Live on Hotmail, Calendar and People. I am currently a Principal Lead Program Manager on the Windows Live Social Networking team. I basically manage a team of Program Managers responsible for delivering features to support our web and client applications. I've been blogging since 2001 and like to play around with .NET in my spare time working on projects such as dasBlog (the blog that powers this site) and Send to SmugMug (an application for uploading photos to SmugMug). I blog about a number of technology and productivity related topics.
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One of the neat, subtle things about Microsoft is the Art Collection. On our SVC Campus they just completed a major rotation of artwork. Kinda sad as I grew to like some of the artwork, but now we have a bunch of new things to see and appreciate.
Not many companies have amazing art collections. While you do see a lot of posters on the walls of Microsoft, you also see a broad, diverse set of pictures, sculptures, paintings and so on. It's one of the nice things about Microsoft.
There is an article in CNN about the Microsoft Art Collection. In Silicon Valley the art is very well integrated into our cool building design. I love this quote in the article:
When asked why Microsoft collects art, Klein answered, "Because they can. And they should. They are involved in culture. Technology is culture. And the art informs the culture."
One of my favorite portraits that used to be on our campus is this picture by Wayne Thiebaud.
[via Adam Barr]