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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It wasn’t till this weekend that I could stick my head above water and process some pictures. I’ve posted a gallery of my Egypt pictures. I also geotagged them so that you can see an awesome sideshow using smugmug + google maps. This stuff is simply incredible.
This is like the 5th time in my life that I have trek’ed across Egypt. Once in your life you need to make it over there. Egypt has some of the greatest wealth of historical and ancient treasures. If you do want to go drop me a line and I’ll tell you what you should do and see. Expect to spend a min of 10 – 12 days sightseeing. Unfortunately, they no longer allow photos in the Cairo Museum. I guess to many people don’t know how to turn off their flash so they don’t allow any cameras. Oh, a lot of people post comments asking me where I'm from etc etc. Both my parents are Egyptian (d'uh). I was born and raised in New York City. I've been back to Egypt about 21 times in my life. I have a giant family there.
Here is a link to the gallery, and a link to the geotag’ed slide show (cool animation of where we went in Egypt and shows the power of geotagging).
My favorite pyramid, the step pyramid of Zoser
The ancient Sphynx. Quite a bit of restoration is done each year on him.
The Mosque of Mohammed Ali. An amazing building.
My camel for the afternoon in Sharm el-Sheik