One Louder
Exploring the fine line between clever and stupid. Heather Hamilton is a Staffing Manager and Microsoft Employee Evangelist.
OMG blackout shades
How did I live without them? I'm in the fetal position and and my room is pretty much pitch black...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 07/30/2008
Randy Pausch Dies
I hate to be the one to break the news if you have not already heard. It was a little unrealistic to...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 07/25/2008
Crafty
She would have learned her lesson if they would have left her in there for a while and let someone...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 07/15/2008
Creative insomnia solutions
Anyone who has been here for a while, or who reads my facebook status updates, knows I am an...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 07/15/2008
So what is my actual job, you ask?
This is one of the things I like about Microsoft. It pretty much changes every year. No opportunity...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 07/11/2008
The paradox of internet shopping
I've done a lot of shopping online recently. And in my usual fashion, I have been trying to figure...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 07/11/2008
When brainy college students around the world get green
Microsoft has been holding the Imagine Cup annually for six years now. Here's how the event is...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 07/10/2008
Tuned In
Now that my new blog header is up (can you see it now?), it's time to have some fun. The guys over...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 07/10/2008
If your grandma had a radio show...
...and watched The Bachelorette. I imagine them taping over a nice pot of tea and ladyfinger...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 07/09/2008
This is that stupid thing you are going to need this year.
Move over chocolate fountain. There's something less practical.
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 07/09/2008
Saved from blog bleh
Like my new header? I had secretly hoped that someone would do something like this for me, but you...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 07/08/2008
What happens in Cambridge (whether or not it really stays in Cambridge)
Here's a good explanation of the kind of work that is taking place in our Boston Concept Develop...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 07/02/2008
Want it? Need it? Gotta get it?
I guarantee that there is a Microsoft employee with one of these in their home (the one on the...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 06/30/2008
June 28, 1999
I know I do this every year, but.... I can't believe I have been at Microsoft 9 years! Saturday is...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 06/26/2008
Marketing Hiring Event in Austin
A bunch of Microsoft recruiters and hiring managers from across the comnpany are flying down to the...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 06/24/2008
Bathroom buddies
This is too funny. I have visited Apple before and my escort did wait outside of the restroom....
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 06/19/2008
Back to blogging soon
I know I haven't written much lately. I'm not making excuses or pretending like it's a big deal for...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 06/17/2008
"Career Woman"
I guess I can't call myself "career girl" (anymore). Is that a ticking sound I hear in my head? Oh,...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 06/12/2008
Once? There was a sales on pots?
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 06/09/2008
One of my friends...
asked me if I wanted to go see New Kids On the Block. And while I would love to tell you that she...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 06/05/2008
Future Peonies of America Club
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 06/04/2008
I'm encouraging you to complain about our careers site. This is not a trick.
I'm helping out our HR IT team. They are developing our new careers sites (for US and international)...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 06/04/2008
Busy Saturday
This Saturday morning, I hopped on my scooter and went to the Redmond Farmers' Market. It's small...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 06/02/2008
Now with 73% more photographic goodness
I did that focus group for Sunset Magazine last week. Although I would have talked for free about...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 06/02/2008
Blogging with Style
I can't tell you how many times I explain my blogging to people and they simply don't get it. I...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 06/02/2008
Learning from Fashion
What can we learn from todays ensemble? a) when you use a French press to make coffee, you are going...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 05/29/2008
Sucker
I'm a sucker for focus groups. I remember once when I was in college, they did a market research...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 05/28/2008
Don't do this!
You definitely shouldn't, but I am glad that someone did.
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 05/28/2008
Where kitsch meets gawd awful...
...meets gotta have it?
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 05/28/2008
Nifty (link dump)
I keep saving things in my bloglines account that are cool, but not enough for a full blog post. Now...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 05/28/2008
Memorial Day
Never really thought about it much before but appreciated the day off. That's really too bad but I...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 05/26/2008
Scroll bar...the opposite amount of fun as a sports bar
I know I shouldn't be working this weekend but I did cut out way early on Friday for some beauty...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 05/25/2008