I'm such a whore

Interesting Article Contrasting Life at Google and Life at Microsoft:
Life at Google: The Microsoftie Perspective

Perhaps I'll write a similar article called "Life at Microsoft: The Apple Perspective"

Redmond, First Impressions

You can really tell that logging, it used to be BIG here.

The place feels like Camp. Giant evergreens all over the place. I'm talking about Lush here. I found the architecture in California to be very Latin inspired. They like them some ceramic roof tiles down there. Up here the houses have a more... log cabin feel. Except these log cabins are fully furnished and decked out to the nines... and have fiber to the home.

The air is crisp. I found Silicon Valley to have a sort of hot mugginess to the air. The air here smells of life, and salt.

Also, they do not appear to know what HP Sauce is.

I took a drive around Microsoft's (enormous) campus. It's not so much a campus as it is "The area south of Redmond". Microsoft, is BIG here. Unlike the Campuses of places like Electronic Arts, Apple, Google... The place doesn't look like one giant mound of amenities to delight the eye. It looks like a business park in the middle of the woods, if you can imagine that. Despite the fact that you see Microsoft everywhere around here, the Campus almost seems tucked away.

I'm sure I'll have a lot more to say tomorrow.

Microsoft Surface

For those of you who were promised the video of Microsoft's new Coffee Table,

you can get it here.

Lost and bored

Often when I'm laying awake at night, I'll pick up my laptop and surf around the web. And surf is an appropriate term for that activity. RSS feeds, Instant Messenger Clients, Facebook. These are all tools to interface with people I actually know, or content I'm accustomed to. This content floats along the surface of the internet, bobbing away to be picked up by any idle passer by, and so the activity is fairly unsatisfying. I imagine that deep in some corner nooks of the net, interesting things are brewing. The world is wide and the web is deeper, but day after day the interesting new content bubbles only slowly up from under the sludge. It feels like I've seen everything on the internet that's accessible to mass consumption, like an endless summer of syndication.

The problem is, how do you dig beneath the surface? Not surfing but diving, exploring the maelstrom of life that lies beneath the waves, where mortal men rarely tread for fear of drowning. Where are the doors, and more importantly, where are the keys?