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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Code names are always a fun thing to come up with. As I mentioned in my post on our Mail Beta (code named Kahuna), we wanted a code name that had something to do with water. It was pointed out in the comments of my post that Kahuna has nothing to do with water. I should have been more explicit. Kahuna is short for The Big Kahuna, and in fact this was not our #1 choice of code names. It was #2. #1 was Tsunami, which turned out to be entirely inappropriate.
Well Steve, a fellow PM, explains why we abandoned Tsunami in favor of Kahuna.