Today, Sara Williams, ex-Developer Relations Group (the folks at MS that were allowed to speak to developers before we had blogs), ex-MSDN head and ex-Microsoftie has given birth this morning to a 5 lb. 4 oz baby girl. Both mother and daughter are doing well (and father is resting fitfully, having lost a month of sleep with the arrival of his daughter a bit earlier than planned).

However, their daughter does not yet have a name and, on the suggestion of Mr. Box, I am soliciting suggestions. If your suggestion is picked, you will be awarded a signed book of your choice (regardless of whether I wrote it or not). Have at it!

I only listen to one podcast, so casting my vote for Hanselminutes on podcast alley’s list of top podcasts was a no-brainer.

Plus, when I voted, they had a free sample for K-Y Brand Intrigue, which is apparently the longest lasting premium personal lubricant. The opportunity for jokes here is boundless, so let’s start w/ some obvious ones and I’ll send a free copy of Programming WPF to the best one in the comments:

• I hesitate to think where the folks at podcast alley think we stow our MP3 players…
• I like Scott, but come on…
• What kind of gadgets has Scott been reviewing lately?!?

Enjoy. : )

I don’t know how many of these are actually real (my left-handed son was very disappointed to hear that he’d be dying 9 years before his right-handed brother), but they were very fun to read with the kids.

P.S. Can you lick your elbow? Tom claims to have a friend that can lick his. He’s going to be very popular when he grows up…

Iron Man 80% Spider-Man 70% Catwoman 55% Hulk 50% Green Lantern 50% The Flash 45% Robin 42% Superman 40% Batman 30% Supergirl 30% Wonder Woman 20%

Inventor. Businessman. Genius.

Dr. Doom 58% Mr. Freeze 55% Lex Luthor 53% Juggernaut 48% The Joker 45% Kingpin 45% Apocalypse 42% Poison Ivy 38% Riddler 37% Venom 36% Green Goblin 36% Dark Phoenix 33% Magneto 27% Catwoman 25% Mystique 20% Two-Face 20%

Blessed with smarts and power but burdened by vanity.

Click here to take the Superhero Personality Test

Click here to take the Super Villain Personality Test

P.S. Happy New Year!

″?Keeping up with their tradition, Don and Chris sing an inspired song for the holidays.”

Merry & Happy!

I don’t know why the MS interview page is suddenly digg-worthy after all these years, but it’s nice to be dugg:

I’d like to thank the academy…

P.S. I’m not looking forward to giving up the tax cuts when the Democrats tax the presidency (the 2008 elections are theirs to lose). How about we cut our military in half so that it’s just the most powerful on earth instead of more powerful than the sum of all the rest of the armies on earth?

Lord knows, I love Rory, but easily my favorite thing are his comics. However, he doesn’t do enough of them, so if you’re looking for a Rory-alternative between comics, check out xkcd. This is the one that made me realize just how Rory xkcd is:

I wonder how often this happens to Rory? : )

P.S. I look forward to the day when it’s just as easy to get int’l news in the US as corporate-spun news. The world will be a better place when we realize that we’re not the only ones on the planet.

It all started with a bet that my new marketing guy could meet his promised numbers by a certain date. Figure 1 shows me reading his results report at VSLive 2003. Figure 2 shows the audience deciding if that was good enough. Figure 3 shows him taking a pie in the face as revenge by engineers for the missed promises of marketing guys everywhere.

Figure 1: Reading the marketing results report to the audience

Figure 2: The audience deciding whether the marketing guy had lived up to his promises

Figure 3: The marketing guy and his just desserts

VSLive 2003
Feb 13th, 4:30pm