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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Two years ago I bragged about my tiny 256 MB SanDisk Cruzer Micro USB Keychain drive. Well today it's been replaced by an even smaller OCZ Mini-Kart 2GB.
This is a great little drive. It's not much larger than an SD card, and at for $45 it's a deal . It fits right into my minimalist keychain.
Here's a tip for what to do with your Keychain drive. First, create a TrueCrypt Traveler Disk on the drive and then set it up so it automounts when you insert it. Scott Hanselman has the tutorial.
Also, check out PStart for a great little launcher for your Keychain Drive. I actually automount/run PStart on this drive and then have links to launch TrueCrypt and backup my MyDocs folder to the encrypted volume using SyncBackSE.