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BillG Memories, Part 2

Not surprisingly, as a peon, I don’t get to interact with Bill very often, so my few interactions are almost by definition memorable. I’ve posted this story before , but it deserves to be recycled in honor of Bill’s last few days. This happened back in Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 01, 2008 4:44 PM by LarryOsterman | 22 Comments

BillG Memories, part 1…

I’m going to be out of town tomorrow, so I won’t be able to post this on Bill’s last full time day at Microsoft, but I wanted to post a couple of anecdotes about Bill. This one actually comes from Valorie, it was her first interaction with Bill…   Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 26, 2008 11:09 AM by LarryOsterman | 3 Comments

It was a dark and stormy last night

It was a dark and stormy night... The band of infiltrators crept into the deserted building. After checking to make sure that the authorities weren't present, they crept up to the sixth floor. At this point, they were committed, there was no going back. Read More...
Posted Monday, April 03, 2006 11:24 AM by LarryOsterman | 14 Comments

Another year, another post

Well, this year I didn't miss the anniversary of my first blog post . I still can't quite believe it's been two years and over 500 posts (ok, it's only 501, but that's still over 500 :)). My posting rate's dropped as Vista's getting closer to shipping, Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 15, 2006 10:20 AM by LarryOsterman | 10 Comments

Da Goat Horns

Raymond's post the other day about a giant inflatable bunny that showed up in his office finally prompted me to get off my duff and borrow a scanner from the PM in my group so I could scan in this picture: The scan's pretty horrible, but you get the idea Read More...
Posted Thursday, December 08, 2005 9:04 AM by LarryOsterman | 9 Comments

My office guest chair

Adam writes about his office guest chair . Microsoft's a big company, and, like all big company has all sorts of silly rules of what you can have in your office. One of them is that for office furniture, you get: A desk chair One PED (sort of a mobile Read More...
Posted Friday, June 03, 2005 12:34 PM by LarryOsterman | 29 Comments

Moving offices - again

Editors Note: This was posted last Thursday evening, and was promptly lost in a blog rollback. Apologies to those who have already read it. I moved my office today. I hate office moves. I don't know how many times I've done it (it's been well over a dozen, Read More...
Posted Monday, May 09, 2005 1:18 PM by LarryOsterman | 12 Comments

Hey wow, I'm famous :)

Wow, what an amazing evening. Earlier this evening, Valorie and I had the opportunity to attend my 20th anniversary dinner at the Newport Hills Golf Club (this place has the most unbelievable views of Seattle, Bellevue, and the Olympics). We got to hang Read More...
Posted Monday, November 01, 2004 11:59 PM by LarryOsterman | 20 Comments

On the "Day of Caring"

Well, I spent Friday morning (and part of the afternoon) at the Center for Career Alternatives , down in the Rainier Valley. I wasn’t going to write about it, but this comment from Mat Hall pushed me over the top (profanity removed) A lesser man Read More...
Posted Monday, September 20, 2004 4:17 PM by LarryOsterman | 7 Comments

Proudly Serving our corporate masters...

Adam Barr, a friend and former co-worker of mine (and currently an employee over in another part of Longhorn) is the author of a wonderful book on the development process at Microsoft called “ Proudly Serving My Corporate Masters ”. The story on page Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 15, 2004 7:55 PM by LarryOsterman | 6 Comments

It was 20 years ago today...

Nope, Sgt Pepper didn’t teach the band to play. 20 years ago today, a kid fresh out of Carnegie-Mellon University showed up at the door of the 10700 Northup Way, ready to start his first day at a real job. What a long strange trip it’s been. Over the Read More...
Posted Friday, August 27, 2004 4:04 PM by LarryOsterman | 66 Comments

My dinner with Bill

Funny coincidences. I was thinking about writing up my experiences at the one time I was invited to Bill’s house (about 5 years ago, it was a party for 15+ year veterans), and I ran into this post from Jeff Maurone. Jeff’s experiences pretty Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 10, 2004 5:22 PM by LarryOsterman | 8 Comments

Three years ago today

I was cleaning up the remaining bits in the Simple Control Protocol , and wondering what I'd be doing next. SCP was a cool project to work on - it was a low bandwidth networking technology intended for home automation. On the project, I was responsible Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 10, 2004 1:11 PM by LarryOsterman | 0 Comments

Things not to do when you run a combined build and BVT lab...

First, a caveat: I have nothing but respect for the people who run build and BVT labs. It’s a thankless task that requires obscene amounts of time and energy. Now on with the story J … My favorite example of things that you shouldn’t Read More...
Posted Friday, May 07, 2004 4:47 PM by LarryOsterman | 7 Comments
 
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