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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Our daughter was born a year ago. This week my wife got a call from the hospital trying to get payment from our insurance company for something or other.
A full year as gone by!
Not even the government is that slow.
It reminds me of the benefits statement we got from the insurance company a few months after the birth. My wife had a normal delivery (no complications, no c-section, in and out in 48 hours). The bill said something like:
Delivery etc: $20,000 Negotiated Charge: $4,995
Delivery etc: $20,000
Negotiated Charge: $4,995
WTF.