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Taking Off For The Microsoft Company Picnic

written by John Chow on July 20, 2007

How one lazy bum made $176,697.50

Sarah and I are getting a head start to the weekend by doing a road trip down to Seattle. We’ve been invited to the annual Microsoft company picnic at Mountain Meadows Farm.

This yearly shindig is held for all the employees and family members of the big software firm. Microsoft employs over 30,000 people in the Seattle area so you can imagine how big this picnic is. If you can’t, don’t worry, I’ll have pictures!

In addition to attending the picnic, we’ll be meeting up with friends in the Seattle area. Sarah lived in Seattle for nine years so she has a lot of friends there. We will be back home on Monday. This will be a good chance to break in the new TL. Since buying the car almost a month ago, I’ve barely driven it. The car is still on its first tank of gas.

While I’m at Microsoft, I think I’ll head down to the company store and pick up some copies of MS Vista Ultimate. It’s only $45 at the company store. I’m not allowed to resell it but there’s no rules on me giving it away. :twisted:

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Still thinking about that food..

see now Microsoft too need some traffic boost from evil Johnchow :twisted: :lol:

I don't know john I wonder this myself. I mean its a well known fact that some bloggers screen allot of their comments only allowing their " Site Network " or friends to comment , giving the illusion of a large following. Then when a stray website comes in and comments allot of blogers are afraid that allowing a link might bleed all their much needed PR. I guess this is when you stop becoming a blogger and more of a splog.

Splogs are people that don't link out to anyone and just comprise a bunch of links to their own private network of sites. Its a bad habbit to get into since if one website in these large chains of websites goes in rankings, they all tend to follow down the tube.

Best way to protect yourself from this is by not becoming a part of that bad neighbourhood or linky farm.

cheers, Nofollow is useless unless your wikipedia

:mrgreen:

I'm definitely going to enter that contest!

Wish I could go to events like that. Have fun.

John said right, that he is invited in this picnic event because he is John Chow.

Yes true.

Because only John Chow was writting against Google on his posts.

Jason, a video a day,lionstarr, Were you writting against Google on your blogs? If answer is NO, Why Microsoft would bother to invite you ? :smile:

Ayy... Good luck!

John, don't waste your money for Vista, it suck :|
It has so many bugs...

Better buy another software [from Microsoft] :)

http://www.o-t-w.net

Damn right it's a great time! I wish they'd some of us folks from Canada over there. :neutral:

Say Hi to Bill for me.

Sounds like a good time, 30,000 people is well massive. I have an acquaintance who works there and he told me it's a great time. Have a good time John!

John, when are you going to post the new Batch???? :!: :!: :?: :?: :?:

Maybe you can get some juicy story leads at the event...

Like the new version of Windows coming in a few years? I think they've named it 7 for now.

good luck john! time to have a vacation...with your love ones :wink:

Vista giveaways eh? That would be a cool contest, and relatively low-cost for you even at multiple prizes!

Microsoft is awesome. I would love to visit their company location some day. Google too!

Nice invitation john...bill gates is not the richest man though Microsoft's no way good now..Google's rockin now :grin: anyway u enjoy buddy ...have a nice trip with some good chill sex cos u must be tired of blogging :roll:

Have a great trip! And tell them to lower the price for MS Office!

How about make Office and Windows open source? Better not ... he might get kicked out of Washington State. :)

John,

That thing you did with the RSS feed is really annoying. I'm not reading a scraped feed, I'm using Google Reader. It seems silly you would want that on every post.

It also serves as a copyright notice ...

Hey, you can pick me up a copy of Vista while you are there. Oh wait, I don't think any of my programs will run on it, oh well. Have fun!

I wish I could go, Seattle isn't too far away either -.-

Great have a fun weekend. I look forward to the contest for the MS Vista Ultimate. :twisted:

vista so Expensive,firefox is free,i like it.

i thought it's cheap in china :grin:

Cheap or expensive ... eventually you'll have to buy it. MS will eventually make Vista a minimum requirement to run their applications.

:razz: i'm waiting for your pictures and want to know the party contains over 3000 man.

Sounds like alot of fun John! I can't wait to see pics of what you'll be "dining" on..

It probably won't be Alberta beef. I think Americans are still paranoid about mad cow beef from Canada. I don't blame them though ... not much is done here to test the animals.

I expect to see good pictures of foods to come ... :lol: :?:

i think john will take a lot of pictures of beautiful ms girls too

I have a feeling he will as well :cool:

MS employs beautiful girls? This is a picnic, not a trade show. LOL

There has to be a few out of the 30,000 employees who work there.

Wow only $45 that is insane, but MSDN price is better. :)

you can getting cheaper ones too

Woo HOoo...I want VISTA!!!! :lol:

get a new pc, and you'll get a free copy of vista

Are you talking about Dell? :roll:

oohh . . Vista . . . such a great operating system . . wish i had something like it . . oh oh . . what is dis - I DO have something like this and it's a lot better . . it's called OSX!!!! if you're such a rebel john . . make the switch and stop being such a 90%er !!!!! :twisted:

OS X is great until you try installing PostScript drivers. We've had nothing but problems with this at work.

very nice ... enjoy the trip ... and I wanna know how the TL Ran!

Darin

I want to go! How cool! I want to meet my hero, Mr. Bill Gates. (well, almost my hero).

i'd like to go too, not because of mr gates though. i just want to feel the atmsphere

Too far for me.....I am in Malaysia :sad:

"It’s only $45 at the company store. I’m not allowed to resell it but there’s no rules on me giving it away."

Hahaha :mrgreen: That's right :!: I'm waiting for the Vista contest :oops:

Enjoy your picnic.

Who wants Vista, if he can have Linux? Or even better MacOS X?

You can also try ReactOS if you want a free Windows. I'm not sure how well it runs the typical apps though.