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I’m online over the holidays but everyone’s so busy there isn’t much point in blogging during this period. More important things dominate so I won’t be posting until early January. Have a great holiday. –jrh James Hamilton, Windows Live Platform Services Bldg RedW-D/2072, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, Washington, 98052 W:+1(425)703-9972 | C:+1(206)910-4692 | H:+1(206)201
Mike Zintel (Windoes Live Core) sent this one my way. It’s a short 2:45 video that is not particularly informative but it is creative: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fi4fzvQ6I-o. –jrh James Hamilton, Windows Live Platform Services Bldg RedW-D/2072, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, Washington, 98052 W:+1(425)703-9972 | C:+1(206)910-4692 | H:+1(206)201-1859 | JamesRH@microsoft.com H:mvdirona.com | W:research.microsoft.com/~jamesrh
Earlier in the week Dr. Tachi Yamada of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation presented the work they are doing on health care in developing countries. Some years back Bill Gates gave a similar talk at Microsoft and it was an amazing presentation. Partly due to the depth and breadth of Bill’s understanding of the…
Last week Hillary Clinton presented at Microsoft to a sold out crowd of roughly 2,000 people. Jennifer Hamilton attended and sent her notes my way. –jrh o About 2000 people o Speech similar to one given on Monday night with a bit more a technology focus · US has always been the “Innovation Nation”–a hallmark…
Update: I’m now with Amazon Web Services: http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2008/12/14/JamesHamiltonJoinsAmazoncom.aspx. I’m an architect on the Microsoft Windows Live Platform team and maintain an internal blog called Perspectives. My postings focus on high scale services, data center operations, very large database, flash memory, service design principles, power efficiency and power management. I made that blog internal because it…