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.
Powered by: newtelligence dasBlog 2.3.9074.18820
Disclaimer The posts on this weblog are provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confer no rights. The opinions expressed herein are my own personal opinions and do not represent my employer's view in any way.
© Copyright 2010, Omar Shahine
E-mail
Well, that was fast. My order for The Week from Amazon took less than 4 weeks to fulfill. Contrast that to my direct order for Make Magazine which has yet to arrive.
Anyway, I read The Week cover to cover last night. What a fantastic magazine. It is full of great synopsis from all around the world. I feel like I get a quick overview of what is going on around the planet in a very short amount of time. In the past I've tried magazines and daily newspapers but the reality is that I don't have the time, or the discipline to actually do this on a regular basis.
The magazine basically takes the top issues of the week and gives you background as well as commentary from many of the world's top publications (so you get an international slant, which is great as I always get the US slant which isn't always great). In the current issue I found out about a Black & White Photography Exhibit by John Szarkowski at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, a recipe for Filet Mignon, and that Geico can't back up their claim that 97% customer satisfaction. Now those are the esoteric things, I did read about Sony's new CEO, Ten Commandments outside the Texas Capitol, Martha's recent comments on prison reform, a very sad story on the Amish, Olympic city selections, Democracy in the Middle East etc.
They have sections such as:
The magazine's subtitle is "All you need to know about everything that matters". I think it's perfect for geeks. Interestingly enough the magazine is a member of the New York Times News Service, The LA Times and the Washington Post News Service. It's a shame that they don't sell this magazine in any store I've been to. I think it would be super popular of they did.
Anyway, this is definetley a Life Hack as you can get all this info in < 2 hours.