For Love of the Game
Hands up if you watched last night’s Duke / Butler game? Keep your hands up if you thought Duke was going to win in a blowout. Yeah, that’s what I thought. Most of you. I’ll be honest, even though I wanted Butler to win, I didn’t really give them much of a chance. After all, Duke had pretty much rampaged through the tournament on their way to the Final Four, and then taken apart a good West Virginia team in the National Semifinal. Butler was …well, Butler. A team from the Horizon league who was riding a 20+ game win streak and was on the mother of all Cinderella runs. But come on – Butler versus Duke? This wasn’t so much David versus Goliath as it was a minnow versus Jaws.
Ah – but if you went inside the numbers, Butler hadn’t allowed an opponent to score 60 points during their tournament run. Offense sells tickets, but defense wins championships – isn’t that the saying? Butler forced Michigan State into 16 turnovers on Saturday night – and won, despite shooting 30% from the field. Defense wins championships. They’d beaten a #1 (Syracuse) and a #2 (Kansas St.) on their way to the Final Four.
And they hadn’t given up 60 points to an opponent during the tournament – until Monday night. Butler did not shoot well on Monday night (34%) and Gordon Hayward, who many feel has a decent shot at being a first-round draft pick, was a woeful 2-11 from the field. 2 of his 9 missed field goals came with seconds to play – a missed jumper from the baseline, and a half-court Hail Mary that came within an inch of dropping in off the backboard. Had either of those shots gone in, this would have gone down as the greatest tournament in NCAA history, and would have probably renewed the pressure on the BCS to implement a playoff system – because Butler proved that success is about heart and execution, and not about money or the size of the school.
Yeah – I’m pumped about college basketball next year already. Pro sports in this country isn’t about the love of the game – and hasn’t been for many, many years. Pro athletes by and large act like spoiled kids who believe the rules should only apply to other people. Even college football players at some of the biggest programs have started to think more about their future endorsement dollars than the fact that they are student-athletes.
Butler proved to us that the reason that college basketball still retains much of its purity, is that the concept of a student-athlete isn’t obsolete. On the biggest day of their college basketball careers, eight of the Butler players attended morning classes. Seems to me as though they’ve got their priorities right, and other schools and the NCAA in general would do well to emulate their example. After all – you’ll never have more fun playing sports – than when you play purely for the love of the game.
April 6, 2010
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Monday Morning Thoughts – April 5, 2010
Spring is definitely upon us in Texas. Sure, it’s going to rain some this week, but the temperatures are also going to be up in the 70’s all week long. Seriously though – who wants to talk about the weather? No-one? Good – let’s move on. It was a pretty eventful weekend in the sports world for sure – here are my thoughts on the two big sports stories this weekend …
- NCAA Final Four basketball – You can’t help but root for the Butler Bulldogs, a lowly #5 seed who booked their place in the national championship game. As much as I’d love to see them win just one more game, I’m not sure they will be able to handle Duke, who simply demolished West Virginia in the other semi-final. On the women’s side, I know that most of my fellow Texans were pulling for Baylor and 6’8” freshman Brittney Griner (she of the infamous punching incident against Texas Tech, shown below) – but I was firmly in UConn’s corner. I mean c’mon – we’re talking about a true college basketball dynasty here. Their win streak stands at 77. The last team to beat them – Stanford, who will be their opponents on Tuesday night in the title game …
- Donovan McNabb got traded to the Redskins – once upon a yesteryear, there would have been no way that any team trades a top-tier player to a division rival, let alone a Top 10 QB. But that’s just what happened. So Kevin Kolb takes over the reins in Philly – I suspect that the boo-birds will be out in Eagle country if he can’t run the table against the rest of the NFC East at home. More specifically, if Kolb can’t engineer a win against the Cowboys in 2010, the fans are likely to start rioting. On the flip side, McNabb should be decent in Washington who are still in a bit of a rebuilding mode. I think the Eagles will end up regretting this trade – especially if they don’t land a stud with the second-round pick they got from the ‘Skins in this deal
Plenty of world news to chew on as well
- More unrest in Russia, as an explosion derails a train. No-one was injured, but the Russians and Chechens are going to be at this for a while, given last weeks Metro suicide bombings, and the follow up suicide bombings in Dagestan.
- A Chinese coal carrier got lost and ran aground on the Great Barrier Reef – and now it’s leaking oil all over the reef. Brilliant. And whose idea was it to allow shipping traffic without a local marine pilot through the reef in the first place? Stay tuned, the conservationists are already up in arms about this one – and rightly so …
- Of course, it wouldn’t be a Monday morning if Congress didn’t find a way to screw over the American people (again). The US Senate headed off on Spring Break without approving a one-month deadline extension for extended unemployment benefits. Yes, boys and girls – it’s partisan politics at work again. An estimated 212,000 people are likely to be affected with the lapse in funding affecting COBRA, Medicare payments to doctors and more. But that’s OK with our senators, because none of them are affected. I’m not siding with either party on this one – they’re all at fault and should be kicked out of office. Over the last 10 years, while our elected officials have been telling everyone else to tighten their belts, they’ve raised their salaries by 23%.
And finally, in the “Travel Industry can’t stay out of the news” section …
CNN has an article about food etiquette aboard planes. Since the airlines now charge an outrageous amount for stale, processed food, people are more likely to bring something to eat aboard the plane with them. Of course, the problem is that you’re all confined to a very small space – and smells carry. Translation – use a little common sense and courtesy when packing your in-flight meal. I’ll be the first to head for a chicken vindaloo at a restaurant, but packing that as your in-flight meal is just downright rude. Personally, I usually carry a couple of small ziploc bags with almonds and perhaps an apple or two (as well as a pack of Icebreaker breath mints) anytime I board a plane – but hey, I’ve done my fair share of globetrotting so I show up prepared. But … while we’re talking about smells on a plane:
- Raise your hand if you’ve ever been stuck next to the person who didn’t use deodorant
- What about the person with terrible breath, who feels that they really need to talk to you?
- And let’s not forget about the person with the sweaty socks who decides to kick off their shoes
- Of course, we can’t leave out the person who doused themselves with cologne or perfume, right? By the way, I’ve often wondered whether lighting a match near someone with that much cologne on would constitute a fire hazard … food for thought!
My point is this – we’re such a spoiled, self-indulgent society, that we rarely give a crap about those around us – especially on a plane. When we do take offense, we get pissed at the wrong people. We’re more likely to cop an attitude with the stressed out single mother travelling with her infant than we are at the lard-assed jackass whose flab spills over into our seat and takes up both armrests. Seriously – what the hell is wrong with us? Here’s my take – if the parent isn’t even trying to calm down or control their child – that’s a problem. If they’re doing the best they can – don’t be an asshole, because you’ve now become part of the problem, and not part of the solution.
And that’s my Monday Morning Rant. Have a great week!
April 5, 2010
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Wal-Mart meets the Space Shuttle
I always tell myself – get to Wal-Mart early on a Sunday to avoid the rush. And every so often, I disregard my own advice – and inevitably regret it. Not just because of the crowds (which I hate), but because of the … interesting … people you get to meet.
Today’s episode – the 350lb African-American woman who decided to take up both sides of an aisle while she debated over which gravy to buy (I kid you not) … here’s how the exchange went:
Me: Excuse me, would you mind moving your cart so I can get by
Her: Don’t you excuse me, I ain’t your damn slave
At this point, I will admit, I paused for about two seconds while I decided just how insulting I wanted to be. You decide if I went too far. Personally, I thought I showed admirable restraint. As an aside, there were quite a few people queued up behind me at this point …
Me: Indeed you are not, however you are pushing maximum density, and taking up more space in this aisle than the Space Shuttle. Therefore, would you kindly shift some of your massive girth out of the way, so that the rest of the world can get by and get on with their Sunday … and by the way, Happy Easter …
Her: @#!%%*@$% (as she battles inertia to move herself and her cart to one side of the aisle – which turned out to be quite a mammoth undertaking)
This is what I get for not heeding my own advice … another Sunday encounter with the shallow end of the gene pool …
April 4, 2010
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Leadership & Imagination: Three Days in Spokane
“See and see again.” Four words. That pretty much summed up the entire three day workshop for Leadership and Imagination (ORGL502). Even though this is one of the core classes for my Master’s degree, I left this one pretty late on because it requires a three-day residency on campus in Spokane. Luckily, this class coincided with Spring Break, so Mini-Me was off in Indiana with her mother. Now, a quick disclaimer – pretty much everyone I’d talked to before getting on the plane had told me that there really wasn’t all that much to do in Spokane, so I was well-armed with several new books on my Kindle and a whole bunch of movies, both on my laptop and my Zune. Three days of class, three evenings holed up in my hotel room … and then back to Dallas. Right?
As with so many assumptions, I was well wide of the mark (again!). I had assumed that the first session (Imagination and Art) was going to be a three hour lecture on the history of art. Wrong. It was two hours of hands-on, mind-twisting artwork, beginning with trying to reproduce Picasso’s sketch of Igor Stravinsky (shown below):
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Despite what you may think – this isn’t easy. You had to do the drawing freehand without creating gridlines or any other sort of reference points. Let’s just say that some of the efforts (mine included) were … different! Moving on from the sketching, there were a couple of other drawing exercises, Blind Contour drawing and Negative Space drawing. If I was under any illusions that I had any sort of drawing talent, these three exercises put that delusion to rest in a hurry. Since art can be created in a number of media, we moved on to working with clay. “Use all of your senses”, was the mantra when exploring clay … so you know one person in the class would taste it (I won’t use any names here, but she knows who she is – even if she claimed it was an accident!) …
… and on to Day Two. The high-energy day. The day began with some scheduling problems. The Zags were scheduled to play at 4:10, but class was scheduled to run till 5:00pm. No problem, we’d just eliminate the lunch break (or cut it to 15 minutes) and order pizza. Our first session was Imagination and Drama. After yesterday, I was prepared for anything, and I certainly wasn’t disappointed. A little improv, some Richard III, plenty of hand-on, and just like that three hours had elapsed. Following on from lunch, we dissected Crimes and Misdemeanors (Woody Allen is quite twisted) mercilessly. It’s times like these when I wish there had been some sort of film studies class available when I was an undergrad. Nevertheless, the movie discussion was quite spirited, and brought the day to a satisfactory conclusion …
… into the last day. Imagination and Architecture before lunch, followed by History and Imagination. I know nothing about Architecture, and as far as the History class, the topic (Rules of Saint Benedict) was certainly one about which I was planning to say very little. That having been said, the hands-on portion of the Architecture session was absolutely awesome. Explore the GU campus and take cool pictures with your group, and then (as a group), pick out your four or five favorites and share them with the class. There was truly some very inspired work here – as for myself, the four pictures I took that I liked the most are below:
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The afternoon session, covered the Rule of Benedict and other aspects of monastic life. What does this have to do with Leadership and Imagination, you say? Well, the answer is that Benedict took a good hard look at the existing rules and distilled them down to their essence but left enough latitude for the abbot to run his monastery in the best possible fashion.
“See and See Again”. It’s about perspective and being open-minded. It’s about possibilities and collective wisdom. Yes, I enjoyed myself thoroughly …
NOTE: Those of you that know me, know full well I wasn’t about to spend three nights in a hotel room bouncing off the walls … we discovered one of the most fun local bars that I’ve ever visited. From Tug (the bouncer) to Courtney and Peggy (waitresses) and all the assorted patrons (including our Drama and Imagination professor, Tony and his crew), I had an absolute blast. Since a picture is worth a thousand words, here’s a few thousand words for you:
March 23, 2010
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Gearing Up for Another Class
Last week I wrapped up my Leadership, Justice & Forgiveness class (ORGL532). Next week I fly to Spokane for a three-day intensive workshop on the Gonzaga campus for my next class – Leadership & Imagination (ORGL502). The course description is somewhat intriguing:
An examination of creativity in leadership through an analysis of imagination, especially in the arts and science; emphasizes the role of imagination in forming cultural images and perceptions of leaders and their functions
Of course, the description is just an abstract – where the rubber meets the road is in the course material, so … what’s in store for the upcoming eight weeks?
Richard III
And other materials …
Not a bad variety of materials, I must say. Even though I love to read, I shudder every time I see a 400-page book on the syllabus because I know it’s going to be a slog to get through it. This list looks quite manageable, and even enjoyable. On to the syllabus itself and the course requirements …
Well – if I look at the syllabus, 30% of the grade is attendance at the on-campus sessions. So those 30 points are in the bag. 20% of the grade for online postings describing, analyzing, and evaluating various interpretations of Richard III. Again, those should be fairly painless points. 30% for overall online forum participation. Basically, four decent postings a week – one annotated question, two responses (in question form more than likely) to other students’ questions, and one additional question, response or comment. Fairly straightforward. The last 20% is for a Leadership and Imagination project which is described as “Synthesis of leadership and imagination”. OK, we’ll come back to that later.
Let’s dig into the on-campus workshop and online forum topics … looks like there are six sessions for the workshops:
- Imagination and Art
- Imagination and Drama
- Imagination and Film
- Architecture and Imagination
- Imagination and History
- Community Dinner and Discussion
Other than the Dinner on the last day, each of the sessions is between three and four hours long. And the first one runs till 9pm Pacific time on the first night. Yikes! That one might want some rethinking – for those of us flying in from other time zones, 9pm Pacific could be as late as midnight back home … I certainly hope they’re springing for drinks. If not, this could be an expensive three days at the vending machines!
The forum topics don’t look so bad:
- Reflections on the campus experience
- Richard III (week of March 29)
- Rule of Benedict (week of April 5)
- Imagination and Film (week of April 12)
- Architecture and Imagination (week of April 19)
- Leadership and Imagination Project (due by May 5)
This looks deceptively straightforward …
Off to Amazon.com to do some book ordering … look for updates from the Pacific Northwest late next week!
March 10, 2010
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Catching Up and Looking Back
I’ve been remiss in updating my blog. It’s been a busy time at work, trying to get ramped up in my new role and preparing for our Global All Hands meeting and team off-site meeting which both took place last week. This is really the first time in three weeks that I’ve been able to take a step back and decompress. It’s certainly been a fun time, but incredibly hectic. Unfortunately, this tranquility will be short-lived as I still have to write my final paper for my Leadership, Justice & Forgiveness class by tonight. Next week is the last week before Spring Break, so I have to prepare for Michaela’s trip, as well as my own trip to Spokane the same week. The week after that will be a full house here in Dallas since both Christa and Michaela will be in town, followed by another group off-site sometime during the fortnight after that. Busy, busy, busy.
I’m definitely not complaining though – I’m having fun. The PQO Global All Hands meeting was both fun and educational. Given how much we rely on email and instant messaging in our daily work lives, it’s definitely fun to be able to make that human connection and put faces and names together and enjoy one another’s company. Of course, it doesn’t hurt when the off-site meeting is held at a luxury resort either. They say that a picture is worth a thousand words – so here’s a mini-essay on my trip to Tulalip, WA for the 2010 PQO Global All Hands Meeting …
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OK – so in between taking lots of pictures and spending a few hours in the Casino (OK, I left Tulalip up around $500 so I was really happy!) there was plenty of serious business (and eating!) taking place. There’s one thing you should never forget about off-site meetings. If they’re done well, the food is awesome. If they’re not – then you wonder if it wouldn’t have been more appropriate to have had the catering done by McDonald’s.
And on that note, I’m off to write my final paper for this class …
March 6, 2010
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The Existential Vacuum
It’s hard to believe that there are only two more weeks left in this class. I’ll admit that when I first saw the reading list, I wasn’t thrilled. But, through the first six weeks of the class, I’ve come to appreciate the readings, even if they haven’t really resonated with me. The readings for this module (shown below) could not have been more different – sexual abuse and forgiveness on one hand, and a psychological exploration of the human condition on the other. Last week, I wrote about my thoughts on the Fraser book, so I won’t be going anywhere near that book this week. I got into plenty of trouble with my classmates with my “extreme” views on how we should treat people who sexually abuse children …
… man is a being in search of meaning. We have seen that today his search is unsatisfied and that this constitutes the pathology of our age. The time has come to ask ourselves, What is the therapeutic approach? In order to answer this questions we must focus first on another one; namely how does this meaning-seeking being search for meaning, and also, how does he manage to find it? There is no doubt that meaning must be found and cannot be given. (Frankl, p.112)
That sentiment absolutely captures the current state of modern society. We’re so addicted to Facebook and Twitter, to email and blogs, to instant news and instant messaging that we have become a nation suffering from self-induced attention-deficit disorder. Let’s be honest – if we’re not being constantly bombarded with information, then we feel lost and disconnected. And I’ll be the first to raise my hand and admit that I’m as bad, if not worse, than most. As I’m typing this up at work (where I am truly a testament to the notion that you can never have too much information – see below for what my desk used to look like. I’m down to three monitors at the moment) I’ve got my blog editor up on one screen, email up on a second, and as always my web browser up on a third monitor – just so I have instant access to both my Facebook account and my Amazon.com account. As I’m writing, I sneak a peek at my email inbox to see if any new messages have arrived in the last thirty seconds, and then take a quick look to see if anyone that I need to talk to has logged on to Facebook – all without breaking the rhythm of my typing. I’m pretty certain that in another era I’d have been burned at the stake …
Getting back to the topic at hand (see, there’s that ADD kicking in again), I think the most telling statement in the Frankl quote above is that “meaning must be found and cannot be given”.
Can we really search for meaning in the regurgitated swill of mass media and information overload? Frankl calls this “the existential vacuum” – a sense of meaninglessness, emptiness and futility. Are we all eternally chained to the treadmill of our everyday existence and go through the motions because that’s what is expected and that’s what we know? Or are we capable of finding deeper meaning in our lives without it being fed to us by religion or through someone else’s actions?
February 17, 2010
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Some Things are Unforgivable
Weeks Five and Six of class are underway. The texts for this week are below. So far, I’ve only made it through the Sylvia Fraser book because it really wasn’t a book to which I could honestly relate, and it really took a lot of effort for me to work my way through it. In hindsight, although it was probably a good thing I did read the Fraser book first, I really wish I could purge what I read from my mind. I suspect that my post below really wasn’t what my professor had in mind (after all, I’m supposed to be discovering my inner servant-leader, my forgiving zen).
There is no way you can empathize with the trauma and horror, unless you yourself have been the victim of sexual abuse as a child. 1 in 4 girls and 1 in 6 boys will have experienced an episode of sexual abuse before the age of 18 (Botash, A. MD, Pediatric Annual, May, 1997). Most children are abused by someone they know and trust, although boys are more likely than girls to be abused outside of the family. A study in three states found 96% of reported rape survivors under age 12 knew the attacker. Four percent of the offenders were strangers, 20 percent were fathers, 16 percent were relatives and 50% were acquaintances or friends (Advocates for Youth, 1995).
OK – if you’re a parent (assuming you’re not in one of the categories listed in the paragraph above), those numbers should make you sick to your stomach. If they don’t, well … there’s really not much I can do for you. What is as terrifying as the numbers, is the fact that children are afraid to report the abuse because they fear angering the offender, or may blame themselves – "I’m afraid to complain because daddy won’t love me" (Fraser, p.9). I’ve spent my entire parenting life teaching my kids that there is nothing, and I do mean nothing, that they should be afraid to tell me. Ever.
Moving on from the fact that the abuse is so rarely reported, the effects of the abuse last well into adulthood. Memory gaps and dissociative coping mechanisms (becoming numb, or taking on an alternate persona for example) are just a couple of the ways in which the victims cope with the abuse. In Sylvia Fraser’s case, she developed a completely different identity into which she would retreat – an identity that stayed with her the rest of her life.
Now, this class is supposed to be about leadership, justice and forgiveness – call me closed-minded if you will, but I see zero possibility for restorative justice where the sexual abuse of a child occurs. I see zero possibility of forgiveness – especially in cases where the abuser is entrusted with the well-being of the child (a parent, relative, guardian or older sibling).
Call me extreme, but in cases where the sexual abuse of a child has taken place, stick a needle in the offender’s arm, and good riddance. That may sound barbaric to some of you, but as a society, are we not morally bound to protect children using any and all means at our disposal?
February 10, 2010
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The Morning After …
The 2009 NFL season is finally over. The ‘72 Dolphins are still the only team in NFL history to have run the table on a perfect season. The Saints won, the Colts lost. Damn. I was pulling for the Colts because I’m a Peyton Manning fan. I firmly believe that he is the best player in the game today, and will retire as the greatest QB to have played the game. OK, let me pause for a second while devotees of Brett Favre, Tom Brady, Dan Marino, Adrian Peterson, and the New Orleans Saints go into collective apoplexy and sputter their objections. I’ll be back in a moment.
All done? Good. If you watched the game last night, there was a surreal inevitability about the fact that Manning threw an interception towards the end of the game that sealed the victory for the Saints. Let’s face it – we generally don’t expect Peyton Manning to make mistakes. After all, he is a four-time NFL MVP and routinely dismantles opposing defenses with ruthless precision. Oh well, guess he’s only 99% machine. Fate it seems is not without a sense of irony.
Speaking of fate, can all those people blathering on about how the Saints are a “team of destiny”, or how we were “witnessing history being made” last night, please put the crack pipe down and go play in rush hour traffic on the freeway for a while? After a while, all this waxing rhapsodic about Hurricane Katrina and “destiny” simply makes me want to vomit … all over the person spewing such unintelligent babble. Following their logic, does that mean that we should expect the Haitian soccer team to win the World Cup in 2014? Seriously? After all – what makes them any less deserving to be a “team of destiny” than the Saints? By the way, if your answer to that question comes within ten city blocks of regurgitating Pat Robertson, then please take my earlier suggestion to heart and go find a busy highway on which to play. Seriously.
Now, as a somewhat neutral observer, the game itself wasn’t all that much of a spectacle. Come to think of it, neither was the halftime show. Since CBS was broadcasting the Super Bowl, was the halftime show meant to be a plug for their CSI franchises? All three shows feature theme music written by The Who. If so, well then, mission halfway accomplished. On second thought, no – just fire whoever came up with the idea. Roger Daltrey looked (and sounded) like he’d been recently exhumed from a sarcophagus, and Pete Townshend was about as energetic as a coma patient. Oh, and for the record, adding spectacular lighting effects doesn’t make your music sound any better.
I don’t see the Saints repeating as champions. Too many free agents in a league dominated by parity. They should make the playoffs at the very least though. Either way, the fewer times I have to hear the mindless masses repeating “Who Dat” as if it were some sort of mystical mantra, the better. I also don’t see the Colts making a return trip to the Super Bowl next year either. That’s a pity. Since the Super Bowl will be played at the Jerry-bowl next year, I would certainly love to see the Cowboys and the Colts square off. I guess I can hope. Let the planning for next year begin …
February 8, 2010
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Are you kidding me? Bedlam DL3 … again?!?
Say “Bedlam DL3” around Microsoft folks, and you’ll be able to tell the true old-timers. If they reply, “Me Too!”, or try to stab you in the eye with a nearby implement, then they’ve been around for quite a while. A quick disclaimer – I wasn’t at Microsoft when Bedlam occurred the first time, so I was spared the nightmare … once.
Anyways, some quick history on Bedlam – way back in the day, the Microsoft IT department were working on a new tool to manage communications and they created a whole bunch of Distribution Lists (DL) named Bedlam DL <number> with upwards of 10,000 users on each one. Well, someone sent an email to the DL saying, “Why am I on this list? Please remove me from it.” which started the nightmare. Almost everyone on the list used the Reply All command and replied, “Me Too!” If you want more technical details, check out the post from 2004 on the Microsoft Exchange Team Blog.
Well boys and girls, the joys of the Bedlam DL are back – different alias, same effect. We’re nearing the release of Office 2010, and as with all new software, when people have questions (especially if they’re beta testing it) they want to ask an expert. Well … someone unwisely posed a question to the entire population of the Office 2010 Dogfood DL inside Microsoft. Oops. Bedlam DL has been reborn.
One thread has become many. What I find particularly ironic is that people are using “Reply All” to tell people to stop Replying All. Thankfully Outlook 2010 has a wonderful new feature that allows you to ignore email threads in which you have no interest.
It’s called the “Ignore” button (shown below). Learn it, use it, love it. And stop Replying All to several thousand people … please!
February 3, 2010
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