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Coming soon... Baby #4
Release to web around May 23, 2010.   :) tweetmeme_source = 'jeffwids'; Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Read More...
The Three Most Important Outlook Rules for Processing Mail
I'm always looking for new ways to process email more effectively. I talked a little about this at a recent conference in Sweden. The topic of my talk was Information Overload and Managing the Flow: Effectiveness and Efficiency and there's video of the Read More...
2009 Microsoft MVP Award
I'm so delighted to see an email with subject "Congratulations Microsoft MVP" in my mailbox this morning! It's so warm and I'm happy to see this kind of email every year, especially I was so nervous and hand sweating in the last few weeks as I received Read More...
Square Foot Gardening for Programmers
As I've said before, I'm not handy, but I'm trying . I want to also point out that I know exactly ZERO about gardening. All that said, here's what I did this year. April 10th This April my wife said it was time for us to have a garden: One day, last week, Read More...
Four handy utilities in my day job
Just want to highlight four very useful utilites that I use everyday and one important advantage is that all of the tools are very small, handy and able to store and run in my thumb drive. FastStone Capture - Capture screen shot and video easily (good Read More...
What I’ve Been Up To Lately
Things have been quite busy with me lately and thus my post count has dropped significantly. Nope, I haven’t dropped off the earth. I have been working pretty hard on a few projects that I’ll hopefully be able to shed some light on soon. I gave an MVC/jQuery/IE8 Read More...
Paint Fence, Cut Wood, Pull Weed, Plant Tree - Finding Geek Balance Outside My Comfort Zone
Please forgive me this personal excursion. I had lunch with my friend Greg Hughes yesterday. It's nice when people know you well enough to really grok when something significant happens in your life. The opening part of the conversation at lunch, in person, Read More...
Snow Day
My wife and I were supposed to go to her Doctor’s appointment today.  After nearly 15 minutes of driving we had made it about a mile into a 30+ mile drive.  Time to turn around and try it another day.  Nasty, nasty day today.  White...( Read More...
Techdays 2009, Finland
I attended Techdays 2009 at Helsinki on 5th of March. It was the biggest MS event in Finland so far, measured purely by the number of audience. I had the honor to participate on Thursday and sit down and chat with many well-known experts like Peli de Read More...
Maturity
This is a nice example of maturity . It’s not always easy to recognize when something you want really bad…something you’ve convinced yourself you deserve, would not be good for you. And it can be even harder, once you recognize, to allow that to change Read More...
The 0 Dark 30 Experiment – A Month In
I mentioned in a previous post that I’d been getting up earlier lately, as an experiment to see what being an early bird could do for this former night owl. I’m about a month into the experiment, and the results are quite promising. I have: been getting Read More...
Technology Highlights of 2008
What fitting way to end 2008 than a list of my own version of technology-related highlights of 2008. Dell’s Acquisition of Equallogic – Ok. So technically this happened in November of 2007. But the acquisition wasn’t completed until early this year. After Read More...
So What Happens When Technology and Holidays Come Together???
This is one of my favorite times of the year. It’s a busy time of the year, but it’s fun. If you’re not into the holidays, chances are you’re too busy and you need a vacation. Even the busiest individuals can enjoy the holidays. Since I was little, I Read More...
Missed my High School Reunion :(
Wish I had thought to google for this.  Another classmate just left me a message on MySpace and the link to my HS Reunion site .  <sigh/> With all of this technology at hand it is still hard to know when periodic events like this happen. ...( Read More...
Going around again...
I started Telligent as a PM, then went into product, then moved to the Microsoft-specific "sites" team where I wrote and maintained the http://silverlight.net site. But that ended last week as the sites team transitioned onto other projects Read More...
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