Humberto's Thoughts

What are the Program Managers @ Microsoft up to? Sometimes I ask that question myself, what did I actually do today? Following a colleague’s advice, I decided to log one day of my Program Management life; I’ve omitted many ‘must do’ activities such as having breakfast, lunch, etc :) 6:30am Conf. call with India Developers 7:30am Read news/posts on the CRM space 8:00am Email 9:00am Feature related meeting 10:00am Bug triage/Project management 11:00am Feature design 1:00pm Bug triage/Project management 1:30pm Email 2:00pm Bug triage/Project management 3:00pm Technical training 4:00pm Community/newsgroups 5:00pm Bug triage/Project management 6:00pm Feature design 7:00pm Email 8:00pm news/community/newsgroups Fun?...a bit I won’t lie; I like my job for the most part :)

There seems to be problems with Windows Genuine Advantage servers this weekend. The net result is that your copy of Windows may not be recognized as"valid"; Don't panic! just go to http://www.microsoft.com/genuine and click validate. Even if you cannot re-validate your copy of windows you will not lose data and your machine will not shut-down. More info on the topic: http://forums.microsoft.com/Genuine/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2055180&SiteID=25

Blue Angels @ Seattle :)

I encourage you to read the latest issue of "Architect Journal" (number 12 once it comes online) http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/arcjournal/default.aspx . It has a bunch af interesting articles about Web 2.0 and its relation with the Enterprise... and ideal lecture for CRM folks :)

Do you remember that I recommended to turn-off shadow copies in a previous post?… well, today Vista made me pay for it; actually, to be precise, it was not Vista but Office. Long story short, my Office got unusable and wasn’t even able to uninstall it.. so I said, “well, I will just use system restore”… WRONG!!, I forgot that I had turned off the system restore functionality (by turning off shadow copies). So, the obvious question is… why did Vista bundle system protection (restore) with shadow copies?? :/ Why can’t someone have system restore capabilities without having shadow copies? (just like in XP) ... :(

There are very few pieces of software that I really, really like... Pandora is definitively one of them; it is beautiful. I would say the best internet radio out there. Good design, excellent usability, excellent sound quality and adaptive algorithms that truly learn as you educate the software…lovely. For those of you that haven’t had the pleasure to play with this software, please please please, give it a try; it is absolutely free. www.pandora.com I’m so glad that Pandora is now also going to be available on cell phones (sprint)…I just hope one of the major carriers (e.g. AT&T) picks it up soon.

There are so many cool things about the upcoming MS CRM realease, codename Titan... too bad we are still not supposed to talk about them. Grrrrr!

I kind of understand why people want to keep their "status" updated in applications such as Messenger... I mean, if you are away you want to signal that, perhaps, you are not going to be answering any time soon. But, updating your status in places like Facebook... I don't get it :/

...no tengas miedo, no creas que no se puede. Superaquello

It appears that my wife and I have a deficit when it comes to video games...we didn't play enough of those in our childhood and now we are catching up :) The funny thing is... did we get an Xbox? mmmm NO! I got a Wii.... the little thing is so funny and so addictive. To be fair we are also planning to buy an Xbox...the Ellite version seems tempting.

Hilarious! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jkrn6ecxthM