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Better Than Cellophane Even with the threat of government mind-control clearly averted, if I were this guy, I’d be worried. Very, very worried. Vista Non-Protest Photo by Robert Scoble How awesome is Vista’s Events Team? I am in complete envy. Vista team members took full advantage of a captive audience by PICKETING the streets of [...]

Randomness

Apr
2006
06

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I’m sorry for not posting. I just…am. There’s no other way to put it, and no point in giving you an excuse, because excuses? They suck. But I’m going to give you one anyway. There’s this little event coming up on April 24th called Microsoft Management Summit 2006 (we call it, "MMS 06" for short, [...]

Passing Notes

Mar
2006
15

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My officemate is awesome. Reshma’s sweet and smart and graduated from Berkley – last year. She’s about 25, wears cute cute clothes, goes ‘out’ in the middle of the week, and works as obsessively as I used to. I am so old and boring. Anyway. To break up some of the monotony that builds up [...]

Moving On

Mar
2006
14

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Unbelievably Patient and Loyal Reader #1: “Is she still writing about eBay?” Unbelievably Patient and Loyal Reader #2: “She’s still writing about eBay.” Unbelievably Patient and Loyal Reader #1: “Um, didn’t she quit, like, a YEAR ago?” Jules: “Hey! I didn’t quit. I don’t quit. I was ‘reorganized’. And it was… (counting on fingers)…six months [...]

Bill for President

Feb
2006
15

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‘kay. I know there are folks out there who are all, “Microsoft sucks!” and “Down with the Windows Monopoly!” and “Bill Gates is a megalomaniac who sits alone in his dark tower late at night slowly reading through his plans for world domination to the sound of Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D Minor streaming [...]