Ad Nauseam

here’s a video we put together on April Fools.  I love facebook.

(crossposted from my work blog, http://blogs.technet.com/adamca)

from the MSN.com homepage today:

well, that meme's old and busted now.  What's the new hotness?

Unrelated but cool: this morning I released the first in a series of interviews with the Office Communication Server (OCS) team on new features coming in their latest version.  There's some cool stuff coming - check it out!

(crossposted from my work blog, http://blogs.technet.com/adamca)

whew, what a week!  I've just wrapped a series of videos that will start releasing next week in conjunction with a pending product announcement - it's really cool stuff.

Of course, the US presidential elections and the economic crisis have been top of mind for me, and fascinating to watch unfold.  I really felt like I was on the outside looking in at the economic collapse, in that other than the declining value of my stock portfolio (I can't even bring myself to calculate the loss - too painful), it really wasn't going to affect my day to day activities.

Then, I read that Mother's cookies were had closed their doors effective immediately, and those little pink frosted circus animal cookies with the sprinkles were a victim of that closure.

Where are we going now?  And what are we all doing in a handbasket?

(crossposted from my work blog, http://blogs.technet.com/adamca)

I have to admit, my job is pretty cool.  I've met a bunch of cool people and new friends as a direct result of my work on TechNet Edge.  Last week was no exception, as I got to sit down with the authors of Hyper-V Unleashed to talk about their adventures in virtualization.  You can see the video at this link:A chat with the authors of Hyper-V Unleashed

While I love my job to death, there is one downside to it:  trying to explain to people what I do.  The dialog usually goes like this:

Nice person I've just met: so what do you do?

me:  <nervous smile>  My job title is actually Technical Evangelist

n:  <boggle> what does that mean?

m:  yeah, I'm pretty much in charge of Happy Thoughts.  I just make sure people are thinking happy thoughts.

n:  really?

m:  yeah.  I also do a lot of walking around and talking to people.

n:  come on, what do you really do?

m:  ok, I try to help drive early adoption and buzz around emerging technologies.

n:  <blank stare>

m:  Happy Thoughts.  I'm in charge of Happy Thoughts.  What do you do?

(crossposted from my work blog, http://blogs.technet.com/adamca)

I recently wrote up a short and sweet overview of Hyper-V Server, explaining what you can and can't do with it.

It's up on TechNet Edge, where most of my bloggish activity is happening these days.

Check it out here:

Hyper-V Server Overview

(crossposted from my work blog, http://blogs.technet.com/adamca)