Sunday, 20 May 2007 My Sweet 16th : 16 Sweet years at Microsoft Today is the anniversary of when I started my career at Microsoft - 16 years! Here’s some ways to represent 16 (thanks to Wikipedia ) Cardinal 16 / sixteen Ordinal 16th / sixteenth Numeral system hexadecimal Factorization Divisors 1, 2, 4, 8, 16 Roman numeral XVI Binary 10000 Octal 20 Duodecimal 14 Hexadecimal 10 As I say each year , I’ve been really lucky, as I have done lots of different things, been exposed to different parts of the business, and seen it from different parts of the world. I have been very fortunate to work with some amazing people within Microsoft, as well as some outstanding organisations & people outside of Microsoft. Let’s look back again, at what I’ve done May 1991 Sep 1993 Microsoft Canberra, working as a Systems Engineer Sep 1993 Aug 1994 Microsoft Corp, @ Executive Briefing Center Aug 1994 Oct 1995 Microsoft Corp, in the Advanced Technology Group, working on Interactive TV Nov 1995 May 1997 Microsoft Australia, MSN Technical Director Jun 1997 Jun 1999 ninemsn CTO Jun 1999 May 2001 Microsoft Region, Digital Media dude May 2001 now Microsoft Australia, Developer & Platform Evangelism Now I have a large team of evangelists , which includes some experienced folks, as well as some new guys who are getting up to speed very nicely. I find a large part of my role these days is explaining what we do to the rest of Microsoft. Seems some folks don’t quite understand what it is we do. The future continues to be bright. I still love the job, I still believe in what we’re doing, and I continue to get inspired by the impact we have. Just look at the buzz from the Popfly news - that just rocks! Time to go make some mashups and celebrate Technorati tags: Frank Arrigo 7:57:45 PM comment [ ] trackback [ ] G! AFL Round 8 2007 : Results Not a good round for the Saints. The played the worst game I have seen in years. Plus, I made a bet with Molly and I lost. I will be singing the Hawthorn theme song for his next podcast. My tipping suffered, but even if the Saints had won, I wouldn’t have scored a perfect round - bloody bulldogs. And to cap it all off, all the home teams won!! That’s what I used last week for my tipping! FFS Week 8 (Tip ratio) Home Draw Away (Tip ratio) (97%) Crows (14.15 99) Tigers (14.6 90) (3%) (48%) Bombers (18.19 127) Lions (8.15 63) (52%) (89%) Cats (14.10 94) Dockers (10.9 69) (11%) (33%) Hawks (10.12 72) Saints (6.8 44) (67%) (88%) Kangaroos (22.15 147) Blues (20.10 130) (12%) (65%) Swans (17.16 118) Power (13.9 87) (35%) (51%) Bulldogs (20.15 135) Magpies (14.18 102) (49%) (97%) Eagles (19.23 137) Demons (9.6 60) (3%) The news about the game isn’t good, but then again, the game wasn’t good either. The crowd was booing during the game. sportal.com.au Hawks stonewall Saints Sunday Times.au, Australia - 1 hour ago Saints full-forward Fraser Gehrig kicked his two goals in the last term, but had to limp off after the second to compound a dirty night for his team. Saints look ahead sportal.com.au Coaches deny yawnfest sportal.com.au all 10 news articles Â» sportal.com.au Hawks down Saints in dour contest The West Australian, Australia - 19 hours ago Jarryd Roughead kicked three for the Hawks and Sam Mitchell had 35 possessions, while St Kilda veteran Robert Harvey had 25 disposals. Hawks outgun Saints sportal.com.au Hawks ready for recent nemesis St Kilda The Age all 22 news articles Â» The ladder situation isn’t pretty either - the Saints are in the same position as they were this time last year Team W D L For Against Stk Chg Pts % West Coast 7 0 1 745 564 1W U1 28 132.09 Port Adelaide 6 0 2 764 669 1L D1 24 114.20 Geelong 5 0 3 963 652 3W U1 20 147.70 Adelaide 5 0 3 650 587 2W U1 20 110.73 Hawthorn 5 0 3 703 651 1W U3 20 107.99 Kangaroos 5 0 3 833 780 5W U1 20 106.79 Collingwood 5 0 3 740 711 1L D4 20 104.08 Western Bulldogs 5 0 3 802 797 2W U2 20 100.63 Sydney 4 0 4 694 631 1W U2 16 109.98 Essendon 4 0 4 845 785 1W U2 16 107.64 Brisbane Lions 4 0 4 691 703 2L D5 16 98.29 St Kilda 4 0 4 636 650 1L D3 16 97.85 Fremantle 3 0 5 722 787 1L- 12 91.74 Carlton 2 0 6 794 1009 5L- 8 78.69 Melbourne 0 0 8 602 889 8L- 0 67.72 Richmond 0 0 8 666 985 8L- 0 67.61 7:52:01 PM comment [ ] trackback [ ] G! © Copyright 2007 Frank Arrigo. A Geek Microsoft Blogger Last update: 3/06/2007; 8:05:44 PM.