Music

My Mom would freak out if I called her old online. Luckily, I don’t think of her as being old at all. She runs her own business (an upscale dog kennel) in Maine, has a smart phone and is constantly staying connected with us through any medium – online or not. The thing is no matter how cool or hip parents are, its often an added complication for them to stay on top of online and digital trends. That’s why we are here to help. J

Wow, yesterday was quite a day! We built a giant phone in Herald Square, and threw a killer party featuring Brooklyn punk-pop rockers, Matt and Kim. I posted some photos from the Night Out party below, take a gander.  Even with all that action yesterday, there is much, much more celebration to be had!

When it comes to fashion accessories, celebrities have celeb stylists like Rachael Zoe and everyday people like me have a dog-eared copy of Lucky Magazine and a few favorite Tumblr accounts. However, when it comes to technology accessories, I have Windows hardware expert Dan Laycock – all a fashion and tech enthusiast needs.

Over at the "Next at Microsoft” Blog, my buddy Steve Clayton wrote up a short piece on what I carry in my gear bag as part of his “Tools of the Trade” series.  As you can see from this shot of my kit, it’s a lot of stuff – usually one or more laptops, headphones, camera, food, etc.  I try my best to travel light, but with my job, it’s pretty hard to do.

Saturday afternoon had a shoot that I was really looking forward to all week – ORIGIN.  If you haven’t heard of them, ORIGIN makes some of the world’s most powerful gaming PCs, all custom designed & hand-built.  My first experience with ORIGIN came when I picked up the massive, blow-you-out-of-your-socks-fast EON 18 gaming laptop (which I reviewed on

A few months ago, one of DJ Magazine’s Top 5 artists, deadmau5 was in Seattle on a stop during his latest tour. When we heard that the electronic music producer and techie  was coming to the Microsoft campus to check out some of our hottest new technologies, we thought that this would be the perfect opportunity for the Windows Live Messenger buddy to challenge him to a dance-off in Dance Central on Kinect!

The last stop on our tour was beautiful Vienna. Austria.  As well as being home for famous composers like Mozart and Shubert, it is also home some some awesome local IT Pros. After 5 hours of presentations, they still had tons of questions and keep us there chatting long after the event ended. It was the perfect ending to our two week tour.

Check out the video and the great comments our audience had for us in Vienna.

Greetings from Amsterdam!

The Springboard Series tour kicked off yesterday to a packed house of IT pros yesterday. We spent the whole day talking about Windows7, Office 2010 and MDOP tips, tricks ,how-to’s around deployment, management, app compat and virtualization.

Check out the video to hear what the attendees had to say and watch for our next report from Stockholm, Sweden tomorrow.

Developers! Developers! Developers – this time at the Redmond Campus!

That’s right, this year the Professional Developers Conference is in Redmond, WA on October 28^th and 29^th 2010. PDC has always been my favorite conference where everyone just gets to “geek out”!