One for the systems people

[Balog]

"My only logging option is to hire monks to transcribe the subjective experience of watching my machines die as I weep tears of blood.”

The best thing to ever be produced by a  MS employee. Do read the whole thing. Found via the inestimable Popehat.com

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/mickens/thenightwatch.pdf

[Hawkmoon]

This man is wasted at Microsoft. He needs to be doing stand-up soliloquies at computer conventions.

I understood maybe 1/100 (no, that's a lie -- not even 1//1000, but I did recognize some of the words he used) of what he wrote, and I still found it hilarious.

[Fitz]

The best thing to ever be produced by a  MS employee. Do read the whole thing. Found via the inestimable Popehat.com

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/mickens/thenightwatch.pdf

I've discovered since starting at MS that there's a lot of really funny, talented people. Especially in the cloud services area.

There's some buttheads, but i havent had to work with any yet.