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# Wednesday, June 14, 2006

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While I was out

Over the last few weeks my desire and energy level to blog was extremely limited. I basically pushed aside any and all TV, Blogging, RSS reading, and a whole lot of other stuff to focus all my available energies on work and moving.

Lets see what’s happened in this time frame.

  • Dick (our dev manager and good buddy) and I gave a talk at Microsoft’s Engineering Excellence & Trustworthy Computing Form on Building Windows Live Mail with Scrum… we also participated in a panel on Agile Development at Microsoft.
  • Looks like they posted the winners for the Microsoft Internal OneNote PowerToy Contest :-).
  • A few weeks back Robert Scoble came down to film what would be his last video interview of the Windows Live Mail team :-(. I can’t believe that the first video we did has close to 200,000 views. Wow.
  • Robert Scoble is leaving Microsoft. That’s really too bad. Sean has one of the better posts about Robert, and I feel much the same way. Robert will be working down the street from my new house, so I look forward to hanging out with him more. I really wish him the best of luck.
  • Lora and I are expecting our first baby in November!!! (thought I would drop that in there). I’m taking Lora to the Big Island in 2 weeks for our final vacation as DINKs (Dual Income No Kids).

Hope to return to my regularly scheduled programming now. Only 5000 RSS items to catch up on.

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Friday, June 16, 2006 7:10:58 AM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)
Congrats on your new addition! My daughter is 2-1/2 and I love being a dad. It's a lot of work, but well worth it.

And sorry again that I missed your Scrum discussion...I had really wanted to go. Being a parent has a way of changing your priorities sometimes. ;-)
tod hilton
Friday, June 16, 2006 7:24:14 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)
Congrats on the baby! That's great!!
Tim
Sunday, June 18, 2006 6:46:41 AM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)
Hey there Omar! Just wanted to drop a line and let you know that I've really appreciated your blog.

I've been reading for the past year or so (since after finding one of your 'hotmail 250 meg' posts if I remember correctly) and it's been great to have a glimpse into the direction MS is taking from the point of view of someone doing the actual work.

Good to see you back to blogging, and congratulations on the baby! I laughed right out loud when I read "DINK"s. You can bet I'll be stealing that little gem when talking about my wife and I.

-Eric
Eric Skiff
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