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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This is a whole lot of fantastic, but since arriving in Shanghai, I’ve been using SkypeOut and Office Communicator to talk to my family and it’s been fantastic. Of course it requires broadband which we have in our hotel. My the world has changed, you no longer have to pay big bucks to call using the hotel rates, or have a complicated calling card dialing sequence. At .2 cents a minute for SkypeOut it will take me a while to burn through my 10 Euro Credit.
I’ve also found Microsoft TimeZone to be an invaluable tool to keep me from doing complicated math to figure out what time it is in San Francisco and New York.