Ugh.. My weblog has been way to work focused recently. I try to talk about something else for a bit.... Well something aside from the war.... Um... I picked up my copy of the new zelda last night! I also ate dinner at Restaurant Zoe via the 25 for $25 program. I had the Mixed Greens Salad, the Smoked Beef Hanger Steak and the Chocolate Mousse. All was excellent. Also they sell half bottles of wine for half price on mondays.
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Of COURSE I Hate Microsoft. ...  Furthermore, if you work for - or with - Microsoft, you need to do a reality check. I've said this before, but the question still remains: how do you sleep at night? How do you take pride in your work? Do you like copying other people's innovations? Do you like working with felons? If you're just making a buck, hey, more power to you. If you're one of those gung-ho borged-out drones... Well, all you're doing is making the whole computing industry a worse place to work in. And you KNOW it.  ...  [Russell Beattie Notebook]

I sleep just fine at night. My work is to make the components I work with more featureful, secure and stable. While most of what I work on is just operating system plumbing (http.sys, and now winhttp and wininet) it's hard to ignore the innovation that are built into it them. The basic concept of a kernel switch of a http namespace is not somewhere I've seen elsewhere, even though it such a simple useful idea. I see enough of what's going on around the company to stay convinced that there is plenty of new stuff that is exciting, cool and orginal. The technology and products that Microsoft makes is good enough that other copy it, and irreplacable enough that even you use it. I take pride when I talk to someone who likes windows XP. I take pride in things like windows error reporting. I feel shame in things like the "Sign up for a passport popup notifications". It's a big company doing cool thing; some bad, most good. I've only worked here for three and half years, so I missed most of the stuff that generated the antitrust trials, so maybe the comapny back then was the definition of evil, but today I can't find something to be pissed about other then which bug I think should be fixed before we ship, and what feature won't be done in time for the next release that I was really looking forward to.
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