Office Zealot

Third day of the MVP Summit already! It appears to be a very productive trip. It is not so much the information that we get that makes these trips worthwile but especially the networking, the socializing and meeting people is making the difference of being at home behind your mail, IM and talking face to face to someone. Somehow when you have a ...

Today I left from home, my wife and two kids waved me goodbye at the Schiphol airport. As I had bought the cheapest tickets available in January and I used Airmiles (from the shopping initiative, not the Frequent Flyer miles) to get an ever bigger discount I wanted to make sure to eat enough before flying out. And what do you know? ...

  Do you know that feeling? Tomorrow you'll have to fly and leave home for about a week (what's a week anyway - it's gone befory you know it) and you get the feeling that you have to finish all sorts of jobs, projects, administrations, organize paperworks and the lot. Somehow you want to leave all your stuff behind in a decent nice looking ...

Only two days and eleven hours to go before the MVP Summit will kick-off. Usually this is a four day event (half day opening, two days technical, half day closing) where MVP's are able to get in contact with all sorts of Microsoft employees in all levels of the organization. From Executives like Gates, Ballmer, Ozzie right to the workfloor, the ...