Larry Osterman's WebLogConfessions of an Old FogeyBillG Memories, part 1- June 26, 2008 Im going to be out of town tomorrow, so I wont be able to post this on Bills 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 &160; Valorie was an intern back during the summer of 1985 in the Word group (she was working on testing Word for the ATT 3B5 minicomputer (yeah, we had a version of Word for Xenix machines back then)). &160; She was late at work one..http://blogs.msdn.com/larryosterman/archive/2008/06/26/billg-memories-part-1.aspx Hold on, Oliver the Wonder Pony and his rider are ranked 14th in the Nation- June 11, 2008 Wow. In the past, I've written about Oliver, the pony we bought a couple of years ago for my daughter to ride. Sharron's long given up riding, but fortunately a young woman in our barn, Margaret Odom decided to take a flier on Oliver and the two have fallen in love. Margaret's been doing really well on Oliver and we've always known that she's a skilled rider and that Oliver is a talented horse, but we just got notified that she's been invited to compete for the National...http://blogs.msdn.com/larryosterman/archive/2008/06/11/hold-on-oliver-the-wonder-pony-and-... Who's on that banner- June 10, 2008 For whatever reason, various groups at Microsoft love to run banners and posters that promote their products on campus. I'm not sure why they do it, I'd think that their money would be better spent advertising to (say) customers as opposed to advertising to co-workers, but hey, I don't control their budget. Recently there's been a relatively cryptic series of banners circulating near my building that originally was a series of pictures of the back of people's heads, and recently changed...http://blogs.msdn.com/larryosterman/archive/2008/06/10/who-s-on-that-banner.aspx Off to the 5th Avenue Awards tonight!- June 9, 2008 Tonight we're going to be attending the 2008 5th Avenue High School Musical Awards show. It's the local equivalent of the Tony awards for High School musical productions. This year Daniel won an Honorable Mention for his performance as Brownlow in Overlake's production of Oliver! In addition, his cast mate Nick Wright has been nominated for an award for his role as Mr. Bumble. It's cool to see Daniel and Nick's hard work being recognized.http://blogs.msdn.com/larryosterman/archive/2008/06/09/off-to-the-5th-avenue-awards-tonigh... News Flash: Spaces are legal characters in both filenames and passwords!- June 3, 2008 I recently figured out a problem that I've been having with one of our internal tools. The tool is used to automatically deploy our daily builds (extremely handy when you're doing that every other day to several test machines). As a part of the tool, you need to include the password for a test account. We normally use the tool from an automatic test harness, essentially I enter the 4 or 5 parameters to the test and it automatically runs the tool (and other stuff if necessary). The...http://blogs.msdn.com/larryosterman/archive/2008/06/03/news-flash-spaces-are-legal-charact... |