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At 2pm of a rather chilly Sunday afternoon, I found myself cruising down the I-5 in a silver Sebring convertible. "you can even put the top down. . . I don't know, you ARE from CANADA", joked the car rental employee about 5 mins back. Everything over the next 3 days, including the flight, rental and accomodations, would naturally be taken care of by Microsoft. 15 mins later I arrived at the hotel, checking in among a flurry of other recruits from all over North America. I met a few PHD's, some fellow Canadians and others from Stanford to Florida.

The next day I was off to the campus at 9:30am. I arrived at the recruiting office and after a quick meeting with my recruiter was off to the day's first interview. The shuttle driver pointed out a number of lots that Microsoft has recently purchased or were trying their best to acquire on the way to the MSN campus. It really put things into perspective as to just how much MS is still growing. Upon arriving, I met another Software Developer Engineer in Test (SDE/T) and after a few quick scenario questions, was asked to do a quick coding question.

Oops, a free Japanese newspaper in Vancouver is running a story on relationships. Somehow these 2 weirdos ended up as one of the couples in the feature article. =p

I've been using Books 24x7 alot recently and have found it to be one of the best resources on the web. The vancouver public library offers it as a service, so access is free of charge. If you don't mind reading on the screen, you really can't get much better than this. Simply go to the Vancouver public library site's electronic resources.

First post of 2006. . .Happy New Year!

While I worked during most of the break to bring the shiny new ams template live, I did manage to sit back and enjoy time pass by. Apart from the few times we made it up to whistler to do some riding, it was a slow but relaxing break. :)

This past weekend we were up in Penticton to ride some of the fresh Okanagan powder at Apex resort. We were greeted with a good 10cms of the fluffy stuff and clear skies. Couldn't have asked for a better day of riding. . .well I could have done without the whiplash from the 3-4 times of hard bails I took. Anyways, I managed to get a good 13 hours of riding in over the 2 days and left with a great impression of the resort. Powder, hot tubs, and tubing. . . good times.