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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Today I got to have lunch at the Googleplex with Jon Perlow and some folks who work on GMail (which Jon works on). We’ve been trying to do this forever (I met Jon at ETech and he is a former Microsofty and friend of many of my co-workers) and we just got around to it.
The Googleplex is about a 3 minute drive from the Microsoft SVC Campus (where I work). The building I ate in was a former SGI building back in the day (before they went out of business). Anyway I had a good time and here are my impressions:
I have to admit. I can understand the allure of working there now that I’ve visited. It felt a lot like visiting a college for the first time when you were a senior in high school on a bright sunny day… everyone seems happy and you could see yourself happy there too.
Anyway, it was a fun lunch, and now I need to do that again except this time with my former co-worker Scott Knaster who I promised to have lunch with a really long time ago!