NY Times author Christopher Elliot writes about the frustration of finding no open power sockets when travelling. I’ve written about this before. The worst airport, by far, is O’Hare. Check out the restaurants, because there are no power sockets in most parts of the concourse.Â
A couple of resources to help:Â Jeff Sandquist’s Airpower Wiki, and the Airport Power Wiki I set up in March of this year.
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Microsoft employees, like those at many other companies I would imagine, have a tradition of posting a farewell email to friends and co-workers when they leave the company. Usually it’s a “so long, and thanks for all the great memories” affair. However, I remember distinctly when my buddy Brandon Watson (now CEO of startup imsafer) sent his mail out in 1999. It was a pretty pointed indictment of company practices and attitudes surrounding innovation, addressed to senior management. Then, of course, young Brandon mailed it to a select few of his pals, me included. I remember shaking my head and thinking “man, he’s got stones!”, and wondering how it would be received. It was a pretty gutsy move from a young guy who just wanted to make things happen and didn’t have the patience to wait until he’d paid his dues.
Enjoy the mail. You’ll see a lot of parallels with Brad Garlinghouse’s recent Peanut Butter Manifesto, and I imagine that (now that Windows Vista and Office 2007 have shipped) there are a lot of similar conversations going on at Microsoft today.
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