For the past few weeks, I've been getting up at 6, riding a bus to Bellevue, and spending my days trying to compile data and derive insights that will help make the search experience better on Bing. Really can't go deeper into it than that. But I like playing with data and trying to see what insights I can extract. Today I completed a spreadsheet on 498 city-related queries, imported it all into a database, and I had to tear myself away from running queries to make sure I didn't dip into overtime or miss my bus.
As has been my experience at Microsoft in the past, I have yet to meet anyone actually evil. I generally meet a lot of people who have a passion for making things even better and cooler and more useful... you know, geeks.
In the meantime, my boys keep growing up and surprising me. I still can't believe I'm the father of two boys. So many of my friends had a boy and a girl or just girls. I've got two boys, and they're gorgeous and smart, and I just have to make sure they grow up smart enough to pass for sane, but offbeat enough to come up with those left-field ideas that redefine how we think about time or gravity or art.
I've been trying to do some programming, but I like the idea of programming more than the act, so I've been doing a lot of planning and evaluating and tweaking my dev configuration. Hoping to lay some foundation code this weekend and get some coding momentum going.
Still want to write my story about the libero solstice... on the shortest night of the year, under a full moon, vampires become mortal. They may go to confession and be given last rites, then they may choose to watch the sun come up. And each year, each major religion in each major city has one poor holy man who volunteers or is volunteered for the task of ministering to the undead.
So much to do. So little time.
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