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fifteen minutes of Internet fame

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We thought that people would be interested in our new team blog, but we didn't quite anticipate the response we got. (Or maybe someone did, but I didn't.) My first post over on Mac Mojo gave me my fifteen minutes of Internet fame: I got dugg.

It was weird to watch this whole thing happening. I wrote that post pretty quickly, just trying to give a little bit of insight into working at Microsoft when your work is somewhat outside the mainstream (certainly for Microsoft!). I thought that if anyone would get any notice, it would've been one of Brad's posts about how h came to be at Microsoft. But no, it was mine. Perhaps it was the reference to Reese's Peanut Butter Cups.

It's been pretty cool, I have to admit. I got a lot of email as a result of that post. One of my responses to one of those emails garnered me an iTunes gift card, which I think might just be the Mac geek equivalent of sending someone flowers. I got a couple of well-thought-out discussions about what it's like being a Mac user in a Windows-dominated environment.

It's also been kinda weird. Someone in the comments thread at Digg did an image search on me and found an old picture from when I was an undergrad. Aside from finding it weird that someone would actually do that, the picture itself caused a lot of cognitive dissonance for me. I remember when that photo was taken, and my memory says that the picture can't possibly be more than a couple of weeks old, but yet I've been out of school for much longer than that and oh wait I somehow turned 30 this year and no-one told me. But based on that old picture, someone said that I look like the little sister of PC from the Get a Mac campaign. Heh. I guess we've both got glasses. But he'd need to die his hair red and get his eyebrows waxed.

So that's been my fifteen minutes of Internet fame. My second post to Mac Mojo about how to give us feedback didn't get nearly the same response, but I suppose that a web form isn't really digg-able. Maybe later, when we start talking about Magnesium in more detail.

Comments

  • Anonymous
    September 05, 2006
    "Magnesium", eh? Did you just let out a code name for Mac Office 12? Is this one of those things you MacBU bloggers are alowed to do now, so readers can think "we're on the inside now"? ;-) (Since it doesn't actually tell us anything, but is cool to know.) I happen to be one of the privileged "Alpaca" beta testers of yore. It didn't even have a real, official name for months and months.  Way before your time, Nadyne...
  • Anonymous
    September 05, 2006
    We've already spilled the beans on our code name:
    http://blogs.msdn.com/nadyne/archive/2006/07/05/657158.aspx
    (It's actually in the comments thread, so you might have missed it. :)

    I think it's amusing how super-secret some people treat code names.  Microsoft isn't quite like that.  Doesn't the whole world know what Longhorn is?
  • Anonymous
    September 05, 2006
    Magnesium eh. Either that's a codename or MacBU is getting into the metal business (which would kind of be an odd tangent... unless there's a side of MacBU we haven't heard about yet.)

    I eagerly await news of exciting new MacBU products made of solid metal.
  • Anonymous
    September 06, 2006
    Any thoughts on the technological singularity then?
  • Anonymous
    September 07, 2006
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