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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So far this year has been going great. I’ve almost forgotten the horrid Alaska delays of last year. In approximately 20 segments this year, Alaska has managed to depart within 30 minutes of the scheduled departure time for most of my flights. In fact, I’ve been flying so much this year that I did a Tier Match to get MVP status (Alaska will do a one time match of your FF status on another airline to MVP or MVP Gold). Why did I do this?
Anyway, I get to the airport on time, and lo and behold my flight is delayed 7 mins. What airline delays flights such a short amount of time? 30 min later they delayed it 1.5 hours!!! That’s longer then my flying time. To make matters worse, the inbound plane is scheduled to arrive late, and the original time was already past our departure time…. which only leads me to believe that our original plane broke down.
Now you understand all the blog posts today.