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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Reeves has a rather humorous post all geeks can relate to.
You decide to update some piece of software or hardware that is working perfectly fine as it is. You do it because you want that new feature, bug fix, firmware update or whatever. You do it in a hurry, like 5 min before you need to walk out the door... and then you go Noooooooo!!!!! Because something went horribly wrong. Or you do it the night before you need to get up at 5 am for a flight somewhere... you know what I mean. You screw the thing up so bad you don't get any sleep and you hate yourself vowing never to do anything like that again.
I do disagree with Reeves' first point "If it ain't broke, don't fix it.". Um, that's not how we are built... .