The Dogs

August 7, 2006 Leave a comment
Milo is on the left, Ripley on the right.

 

London Calling

August 4, 2006 Leave a comment

I got the paperwork from the Microsoft HR folks in the UK, so we are one step closer. The photo is from 2001 and is of Lorie in a phone booth, since you know, Americans can never get enough of the red British phone booths. I wonder what they’re used for now days since most people have cell phones?

Learning about sake

July 6, 2006 Leave a comment
To all our friends and family who wonder why Lorie and I prefer sake over other drinks, perhaps you’ll see that we are simply leading the way here on the West coast of the US. See this article from the Seattly PI: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/food/276300_sake05.html 

Talking about The Seattle Times: Business & Technology: Dealer is looking Smart

July 4, 2006 Leave a comment

We usually buy our BioDiesel at the Green Car Company in Kirkland. They also sell Smart Cars:

     The Seattle Times: Business & Technology: Dealer is looking Smart

New Phone with auto-updated phone numbers

July 3, 2006 1 comment
Hopefully you are using Windows Live Messenger, because I just got a new Uniden phone and it’s very cool. It can be a normal phone and into your PC via a USB cable. I pulled it out of the box, plugged it into my PC, and it automatically updated itself with all of my contacts that I have in WL Messenger. You see, WL Messenger has a feature that can keep your friends/family contact info up to date whenever someone updates their contact info. (see http://get.live.com/messenger/features#E2AAC for more info).
 
This means that my new home phone can always have my contact’s latest phone numbers and I don’t have to do anything other than have them on my "buddy" list in WL Messenger.
 

Video Phone Calls with Brian and Lorie

June 14, 2006 Leave a comment

Hey friends and family,

When Lorie and Brian are in London we plan to use Windows Live Messenger to talk to you. Microsoft has some new webcams coming that will make it VERY easy to both talk and see each other (live video) via Windows Live Messenger. So once you can buy Microsoft’s webcams, we’ll be bugging you to go buy them.

Read this to learn more about them: Microsoft Hardware Advances Digital Communications Experiences: First webcams from Microsoft

An Inconvenient Truth

June 5, 2006 Leave a comment

Please go see An Inconvenient Truth 

Lorie and I just saw it on June 3rd and were pretty surprised to learn just how far along we are into global warming. It is causing us to focus more on our biodiesel car and reconsider lighting we put into our new house.

Windows Live Messenger

May 9, 2006 Leave a comment

One of the products I work with at Microsoft:  

Related are phones that will work with your "buddy list" from Uniden and Phillips. 

Talking about Bird’s Eye Tourist

May 3, 2006 Leave a comment

 Bird’s Eye Tourist

Check out http://www.birdseyetourist.com/

You can see a ton of interesting things in the US – compliments of our online mapping software.

Our Future Life in London

April 28, 2006 Leave a comment

Lorie and I have been in London for 3 weeks looking for a place to live, get a bank account, and just get a feel for the city. Dysfunctional bureaucracy pretty much defines the UK! Hopefully Lorie and I will eventually discover why people love it here, or at least like it. We don’t smoke and aren’t big beer drinkers, so I’m sure that’s going to hamper our experience. The photos offer a glimpse of our upcoming new life…. once work permits, dog quarantine, moving, and holidays are over.