It is always amazing how quickly time passes. I started blogging just a touch over a year ago, at the time I wasn’t totally sure at the time how long I was going to keep it up for or what role blogging would take in my work and play. A year on, and almost 170 posts [...]

I’ll place a bet that it isn’t quite as much as the taxi driver who brought me to the airport this morning does. Recycling in the west is often a matter of environmental conscience, we do it because we feel better about ourselves (or we feel like we’re doing our bit) when we put that aluminum [...]

Patrick Durusau has posted a couple of his now characteristic PDFs since the end of the IS29500 appeals process. It is worth taking a moment to read both of them; http://www.durusau.net/publications/listening.pdf OOXML has been approved by a super-majority of those eligible to vote, appeals have been denied and yet the cry: “You’re Not ...

The government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.  - Ronald Reagan President Reagan had many talents, one of which was the innate ability to take very complex issues and sum them [...]

Last October I shared a few thoughts on a study that we conduct with IDC every year looking at the net impact of Microsoft’s business on the ecosystem of partners,developers and other service companies around us. The headline is that we measure part of our relevance in markets where we do business in terms of [...]

This story has appeared in several of my regular sets of reading materials this morning. It seems that China will be breaking ground on a whole new city that will be built from the ground up with the environment in mind. My move to Singapore almost two years ago gave me the opportunity to travel to China [...]

I hadn’t realized it had been two years already! S.Somasegar has a celebratory post up this morning discussing two years of Codeplex. Since launching, CodePlex has grown steadily, recently achieving two major milestones: 1,000,000 unique visitors/month and 5,000 total projects. CodePlex projects appeal to many audiences and include the AJAX ...

Out National Technology Officer for New Zealand, Brett Roberts, has started blogging. Brett has been a huge help to me as I have been finding my feet here in Asia Pacific over the last eighteen months. He has a really clear view on issues that the industry faces today, coupled with a healthy sense of Kiwi [...]

Assuming you have not spend the last two weeks living in a sealed box under a bridge (or in a hotel in Portland with an almost non existent internet connection) then you will probably have noticed that the journalist behind the Fake Steve blog has started writing again, this time under his real name Dan [...]

I’ve been attending Microsoft’s annual global sales meeting in Atlanta this week and now find myself in a painful situation where I now have only a week before I need to be in Redmond for several other meetings, including the DII Workshop on SP2 and ODF. My colleague Bryan Kirschner, Microsoft’s Director of Platform Community ...