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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Well I was back a few days go. I went to Dublin, Ireland last week for work. I wasn't there long enough to get over my jet lag, which made for interesting days to say the least. On my flight home, via Amsterdam, my Air Lingus flight front door would not close and it took them 2 hours 10 minutes to fix this. Normally no big deal, but my layover was 2 hours 20 minutes. Well needless to say I barely made my flight, after they had closed it... so they hand wrote me a boarding pass and let me on board. This was after I was delayed 5 min by a security guard who was upset that I forgot to remove my regulation zip-loc bag from my carryon for inspection. I told him he could have the bag so long as he would let me walk over 5 feet to the checkin counter to get my boarding pass. He wasn't too interested in my offer so I sat there ready to cry thinking I would be spending the night in the Amsterdam Airport. Did I mention it was Friday the 13th?
Anyway, I really enjoyed Dublin. I found it to be a really charming city. Everyone was extremely friendly and nice. I did make some time to go see the Book of Kells, hang with some former co-workers, have dinner and lunch with Reeves' wife Paula (Reeves was in Redmond, go figure ), and visit the Guinness Storehouse for some yummy Guinness. Yes, that's not a real pint in the photo, it's a half pint. I was about to pass out from jet lag so I figured I'd be better off with a smaller portion.
I posted my pics on smugmug.