As I posted previously, My team is hiring.

Thanks to everyone that contacted us.  We got some good referrals this way.

It turns out that we just spooled up another sub-team that we need to staff.

We are looking for developers/testers to build a tool that I will roughly describe as "Emacs.Net".

No more details than that, but it should be enough to get your brain moving in the right direction.

If you have background writing development tools/IDEs/text editors/etc. at some other company (or inside of Microsoft ), we would love to talk to you.

Email: douglasp@microsoft.com

New Culture novel is coming out... 

Amazon.com: Matter: Books: Iain M. Banks

Looks like there is a new Dune film in the works.

I both love and hated Lynch's 1984 version.

If I remember right, I went and saw it during Christmas of that year.

I loved the film.

I had not read the book first (I was in the mist of my Tolkien phase), but I read every single one in the series multiple times afterward.

I hated the film.

SCI FI Wire

Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter. So long as men live together on earth and need means to deal with one another -- their only substitute, if they abandon money, is the muzzle of a gun. 

Can you guess?

The cool part of this is the Google Earth tracking.

It is difficult to write this post with the press of kids around the computer tracking Santa.

NORAD TRACKS SANTA 2007

No Country for Old Men is #1 and I completely agree.

It is actually one of the best movies that I have seen in the last few years.

The ending was so real, powerful and a fitting conclusion to everything that had come before.

Peter Travers' Best and Worst Movies of 2007 : Rolling Stone

I thought this quote was interesting, "If you are in a big company, join a group that isn’t going to get cut.  Scott Guthrie’s group inside Microsoft, for instance, is a lot safer than lots of other groups."

Surviving the 2008 recession « Scobleizer

Logging into Google Reader today, I saw the below.

BTW:  I still can't believe we don't have something like Live Reader (I have asked internally and still I am not sure why we don't have one, but MSFT is so big, I bet someone is working on it).

My favorite band, back together again...

Led Zeppelin: The Full Report From David Fricke : Rolling Stone