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The Unofficial Microsoft Overworked Advisory System

Posted Thursday, August 07, 2008 11:36 PM by danielfe
Scott Hanselman recently blogged about "Ninjas on fire" as a way to describe being overwhelmed at work, here's a snippet from his post on the origin: Jesse asked me how I was doing yesterday and I replied "Ninjas on fire, man." Four Read More...
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Bioware Knights of the Old Republic MMO Coming!

Posted Thursday, July 17, 2008 4:07 PM by danielfe
Woohoo! From Joystiq , Bioware has officially spilled the beans that they are building a MMO based on the Knights of the Old Republic game. The first KOTOR game was amazing, clearly one of the best Xbox games ever and an amazing twist at the end...in Read More...
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The Superficial Poll: Blonde or Brunette

Posted Monday, June 23, 2008 5:03 PM by danielfe
Margaret Rouse from the Overheard blog calls me out for dying my hair blonde: I’m a big Dan Fernandez fan — but I had a hard time watching this video because I kept thinking “why did you bleach your hair?” Now Margaret has nice Read More...
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List of Microsoft employees mentioned in Microsoft 2.0

Posted Monday, May 05, 2008 3:01 PM by danielfe
I just finished reading Mary Jo Foley's new (unauthorized) book, Microsoft 2.0 : How Microsoft Plans to Stay Relevant in the Post Gates-Era . Amusing Part #1 came for me when I read the forward which was written by Mini-Microsoft , in Mary Jo's words, Read More...
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Someone should remake The A-Team for Cable TV

Posted Monday, April 07, 2008 2:18 PM by danielfe
Crazy Idea #5150 Cue the background military music and authoritative announcer: Ten years ago / In 1972, a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade Read More...
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Microsoft the Contest Machine

Posted Monday, March 17, 2008 3:04 PM by danielfe
Last updated: 6/30/08 NOTE: If you've been forwarded a link to this blog post, it's likely that one of your colleagues thinks you should do your due diligence before thinking a contest is the fastest road to salvation. It isn't, here's why... I'm starting Read More...
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Microspotting lands an interview with Mini-Microsoft

Posted Wednesday, February 27, 2008 3:38 PM by danielfe
Kudos to Ariel Stallings , Microsoft employee and author the Microspotting blog (one of my favorite new blogs) on landing a virtual Mini-Microsoft interview . My personal opinion of Mini is a bit mixed, and I've definitely disagreed with Mini in the past Read More...
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This Week on Channel 9: Feb 15 with Special guest Scott Hanselman

Posted Friday, February 15, 2008 2:57 PM by danielfe
  We had lots of laughs in the studio with Scott this week! Here's the show recap: - We have a new logo (courtesy of Lincoln Anderson at 352 Media ) and Scott Hanselman joins us in-studio (0 - 1:45) - Microsoft Entertainment and Devices acquires Read More...
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The Bill Gates Interview

Posted Tuesday, February 12, 2008 8:51 AM by danielfe
I'm such a huge Bill Gates fan, not only for his technical and business brilliance, but for all of the work his foundation has done. That's why when Jeff Sandquist and Charles Torre told me I was going to be interviewing Bill, I was....beside myself. Read More...
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Moving to the Channel9 Team!

Posted Thursday, January 17, 2008 1:49 PM by danielfe
This week I officially became the newest member to Jeff Sandquist's Channel9 team ! Here's my quick-and-dirty interview on Channel9 . I'm really excited to be on the team and yes, I am not afraid to go back to Stage 1 - Incompetence in the new employee Read More...
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The Stages for New Employees at Microsoft

Posted Friday, October 26, 2007 10:34 AM by danielfe
Phil Haack blogged about how, as a new Microsoft employee, he's drinking through the firehose [FYI to Phil: Brian Goldfarb has been using this as the motto on his blog since 2003 , before Dare's post ] and I'd thought I'd add my two cents to the lifecycle Read More...
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Cribs for Geeks: Who's Geek-Crib would you want to see?

Posted Thursday, October 11, 2007 3:21 PM by danielfe
Jeff Sandquist is looking for potential Microsoft employees who wouldn't mind showing how they've pimped their house with technology like X10, Windows Media Center, Windows Home Server, and more. This is an awesome idea and it rocks that Jeff and team Read More...
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How to fix Flash video on Windows Vista / Internet Explorer 7.0

Posted Monday, September 17, 2007 10:01 AM by danielfe
I've had this problem occur on two PCs so I thought I would post the fix (courtesy of Brian Keller ) since I'm likely not the only person running into this. Go to this page to install Flash (uncheck Google Toolbar, no idea what that has to do with Flash) Read More...
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Making an educated seafood choice

Posted Tuesday, July 17, 2007 11:35 AM by danielfe
Courtesy of Jana , next time you're out to dinner with friends, remember to pull out your handy Seafood guide provided by Seafood Watch so that you can make an educated choice on seafood entrees and avoid over-farmed or bad-for-the-environment choices. Read More...
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Visual Studio Express and TestDriven.NET

Posted Thursday, May 31, 2007 10:39 PM by danielfe
* Updated with follow up post on technical information in response to the comments. While I’m not a lawyer, my team owns Visual Studio Express and I wanted to respond to the concerns expressed by some over our recent communications with Jamie Cansdale Read More...
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