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2038-01-19T03:14:07Z

I am trying out this (Windows) Live Writer software for blogging. It's nice. The WYSIWYG bit is not far from the truth (not per se perfect but it's really not bad). It's got some neat plugin gack and all the stuff you expect from a rich client (like not sucking as hard as somebody's retarded text input field). I don't want to be "that guy" but AJAX really, really, really sucks. It is not a worthwhile tool for writing true applications and there are just things you can't do with it. Go on, call me when those vaunted Google apps have a 10th of the capabilities their client-side variants have on any OS. Really, honestly, AJAX sucks.

And I don't want to hear about how end-users only need 10%. If you really only need that much why are you using a spreadsheet or a word processor? Whip out a text editor and call it done, since you're basically just throwing text around in an unstructured manner. Seriously.

In other news we have a big release coming soon. I can't talk about dates or features (I do have a feature in it, very small, but it's my feature). I am extremely excited. I feel like we are taking a huge leap forward with this release and I do wish I could talk about all the reasons I think it's awesome. I had mixed feelings moving into Search Development here at Microsoft. It's a good career choice for me personally, the work is fascinating, and my coworkers are all unfathomably more intelligent than I am. But all that said, when I started I was definitely a little worried. Would we be able to mount a (legitimate) push on the market? Become a relevant player? I have had much more visibility into what we have coming since then and I'm really amazed. The effort made on our team, the work we're doing, it's absolutely fucking amazing.

I hope that having a real client to write this stuff will make me feel more inclined to blog than I used to. So often I think I would like to write a post about something, have a half-built post in my head, and I just kinda don't do it. Perhaps I can get more diligent about this in the future.

I leave you with the following video. This song (perhaps not the chart) will be in Guitar Hero III. For that reason alone I will buy that game, despite being much more interested in Rock Band.

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