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Monthly Archives: November 2010
the user experience of lost luggage
Last week, I travelled to my hometown to visit my family for Thanksgiving. On the way home, the airline lost my luggage. Lost luggage is a bad experience all around. It’s been some time since my luggage has been lost … Continue reading
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book review – “Being Geek”
I’ve been reading Michael Lopp’s blog, Rands in Repose, for some time. Lopp has a pretty good geek resume, with experience at Symantec, Borland, Netscape, and Apple. His blog is one that I always read. He’s got a great gift … Continue reading
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acclimatizing
Everyone, from friends to family to previous colleagues to new co-workers, asks me the same question: “how are you acclimatizing?” Having been here for not even two weeks yet, I’m never entirely sure how to answer that question. So far, … Continue reading
week one at VMware
The first week of a new gig is a lot of hurry up and wait. First of all, there’s the hurry-up-and-wait of setting up new computers. I have two: a MacBook Pro and a Dell running Windows Server 2008, both … Continue reading
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the gender language of recommendation letters
Having just gone through the process of getting recommendations to join VMware, I was very interested in this news out of Rice University: Recommendation letters may be costing women jobs, promotions. The researchers found that, in letters of recommendation for academia, … Continue reading
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joining VMware
On the flip side of leaving Microsoft, I have now joined VMware. There, I’m going to conduct user research across the product portfolio. I’m excited to have a geekier focus than I had at Microsoft — my two undergraduate degrees … Continue reading
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leaving Microsoft
Today was my last day at Microsoft. In my five years here, I shipped two full versions of Office:Mac, as well a few other things like Remote Desktop and Entourage for Web Services. MacBU has been a truly awesome team … Continue reading
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Exchange Connections slides
As promised yesterday, here are the slides that Bill Smith and I presented at Exchange Connections. Both of the presentations were quite heavy on demo, so the decks only capture a small portion of what we talked about.
Posted in Exchange, Office:Mac 2011, Outlook
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Exchange Connections slides coming
Today, I presented two sessions with Bill Smith at Exchange Connections: Administering Macs in Exchange and Outlook:Mac 101. Once I get back to a better network connection, I’ll post my slides here. For those of you who attended the conference, … Continue reading
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Thriller flash mob
To take a teensy break from Office:Mac, here’s a video of a Thriller flash mob that took place in the cafeteria last Friday. One of the zombies is someone I mentored (and you can read into that what you will!), … Continue reading
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