Monthly Archives: April 2006

We Made it to Nice

TB and I arrived in Nice, France yesterday around 9:45AM after leaving Seattle on a 8:40AM flight.  Nice is 9 hours ahead of Seattle so our total travel time was roughly 14 hours from airport to airport including a one-hour … Continue reading

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Music Review: Insomnia

I have had plenty of time to listen to Asheru‘s album Insomnia since I purchased it back in February.  While the album has a lot of creative content and top-notch production scattered throughout, it just is not as good as … Continue reading

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Month Four on the Job: Spokesperson

Today marks the four-month mark of my job change at Microsoft.  My focus over the last month has been on establishing myself as a spokesperson for the products I look after: ASP.NET, ASP.NET codename “Atlas” and Visual Web Developer. My ramp-up … Continue reading

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Ninjas & Pirates

Apparently, some jumpy ATF agents thought a guy running around the University of Georgia campus dressed as a ninja was a threat and pounced on him “Cops” style.  The link to this gem of an article was sent to one … Continue reading

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The Known World

I decided to look into Edward P. Jones’ Pulitzer prize-winning novel, The Known World, after seeing him on an episode of “Oprah” — TB makes me watch. :ashamed: The subject matter of Jones’ first novel, black slaveowners in the American … Continue reading

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