David Weiss

Everyone has their own favorite language. Steve Rowe just pointed me to this funny my-language-is-better-than-yours graph. I found it real...

Have you ever wondered what a Microsoft MVP was? Have you considered the performance implications of getting a Wii for your work force? Have...

Frank Shaw (who incidentally has one of the coolest named blogs ever) has a great post about how our impatience can get in the way of seein...

The following quote is from a long article on Toyota in the New York Times : Improving efficiency in the factory, though, doesn’t necessaril...

Every once in a while me and some of my buddies will get together for lunch to prognosticate and pontificate. The "rules of engagement...

As promised and thanks to a brave soul, here are the Easter Egg screenshots. Without the animation, it's hard to get a feeling for scrol...

From Wikipedia: A virtual Easter egg is a hidden message or feature in an object such as a movie, book, CD, DVD, computer program, or video...

As a birthday present to MacBU Joe LeBlanc, Jessica Lambert and Matt Elggren (aka Mel) arrived at our building at 6 AM yesterday morning a...

Today we are celebrating the 10th anniversary of the creation of the Macintosh Business Unit here at Microsoft. I was there when the Busines...

Ever laconic Seth Godin posts on what he sees in demand these days: We don't need pilots. We need instigators and navigators, rabble ro...

There's been some talk recently about how MacBU might better develop software, and it reminded me of this story : A long time ago in ...

I just read this by Michael Bolton on testing, but I think it has more general application: It occurs to me this evening that when test pla...

Consider this summary of the story of a horse named Snowman by Joseph B. Wirthlin: Harry de Leyer was late to the auction on that snowy da...

This is part 3 in my "Blogs I Read" series. I hope you find it useful. ADC Headlines - Apple - Feed I find it really useful to ke...

I just found out that today is World Usability Day , and I couldn't help from laughing at the poster. Yeah, usability really matters. En...

I recently listened to a BYU Devotional in which LDS Church President Gordon B. Hinckley simply related from his life "Experiences Wor...

It's funny, here at Microsoft when we finish a project, we "release to manufacturing" which is implied to mean that we carry t...

“Don’t worry about other people stealing your ideas. If you’re ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats.” - Howard ...

I recently discovered Dragster , and on their front page the have this 19 second movie that consists of these 6 slides: This is simply great...

This is part 2 in my "Blogs I Read" series. I hope you find it useful. Unitus Microfinance Blog - Unitus Employees - Feed Unitus ...