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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I received my dell home desktop yesterday. I was pretty excited about it, but that excitement quickly went away. Here are my issues:
Dell has a 21 day return policy from the day of invoice! OMG, that was 13 days ago and I just got my PC unpackaged. What kind of company starts the clock when you place the order (and penalizes you for build time, and UPS Ground Shipping across the country)?
Anyhoo, it was a nice lesson. I’m now going to get a Shuttle ST20G5 with an AMD 64 from Newegg and call it a year. I can get the case, proc and memory for $650. I can then transfer the goods from my old PC to the new one. I should have done that in the first place, but the $700 off coupon was so tempting.