We finally got around to seeing Hayao Miyazaki’s “The Wind Rises” on Thursday night. As Miyazaki’s last film, there was quite a lot of pressure on it from our perspective – we hadn’t read much about the plot, but we’re big enough
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Back in December, I was browsing the internal Microsoft forums (Yammer) and stumbled across an announcement for a new volunteer outreach program – MySkills4Afrika, part of the larger Microsoft for Afrika program. They were accepting applications from full-time employees to share their
In the past 6 months I’ve had the opportunity to use the new Disney World MyMagic+ system as a guest at Animal Kingdom Lodge on two separate trips – my honeymoon in October and a trip at the end of January. In
I can still remember when the TiVo interface was a beautiful creature of simplicity, a thing to be emulated and learned from. They accomplished so much with a simple directional control. But the TiVo – and all modern DVR/interactive guide systems –
(Disclaimer: I am a Microsoft employee. However, these opinions are my own.) It’s been about a month and change since we resolved the myriad A/V issues and got our Xbox One added to the entertainment center. The best answer I have for
Over the course of a year, I talk to hundreds of students and young professionals interested in the field of UX and looking to start a journey through reading. Three notes: 1. For those looking to pursue this as a career change,
My new camera is no Muggle camera. Pictures have always been a big deal in my family, and as my memory is a bit suggestible I very much value having the physical record of my adventures. Particularly because we tend to travel
I threw out my scale today. I’d LIKE to say that it was some sort of grand New Year’s statement breaking free from an image-conscious culture. …But in reality, the battery died this morning and it’s a super old relic left by
It’s been pretty quiet here on my blog in 2013, as it will go down in my personal history as the year I got married (on September 29, 2013). I’ll blog about the wedding separately once we’ve got video and official photos,
How often do you get to say “I’m fighting my maid of honor regularly” and have it be completely and totally normal? Back in 2012, my friend Jeannine – also the founder of one of the theater companies I worked for –