Prequell Post - How it all began...
Hey all,
This post will be dedicated to this one, essential and life-altering question - why on earth am I opening a blog? Well, the god-honest answer is that many people really asked me to. Now, this probably sounds really good as a reason but this is exactly why a Prequell post is in order. So hold your RSS's for a minute and let's dig deeper the real deeds behind this blog.
It all started five years ago when I came to understan a very sad truth about myself. I'm a Spammer. Yep, I love to spam the hell out of people. This means that I usually feel an stoppable urge to share all of my fascinating technical discoveries of the day with a whole bunch of people. This would have been OK if those people we're sharing my enthusiasm but the nasty truth is that they're not. And the real sad thing - most of the time they are too nice to tell me they don't really give a rate's ass about all of my floating Tool Panes for Sharepoint or sample codes for kicking up ranking in MOSS Search.
This problem of mine got worse in the last few months since the people I spam feel started to feel obligated to read my mails. Yes - somewhere along the way, people got the notion I have something important to say and now they can't even delete my junk (or better yet - let an Outlook rule nip it in the bud). This created a situation for many freedom seeking people around me to demand I'll open up my own blog.
Now this is the beautiful thing about perspective: You see - People did ask me to open up a blog and I'm sure as hell was not lying about that. The only problem is that the reason for that request was not "God Adir, You're so smart - please open a blog" but something that was more around "please stop hassling innocent-5MB-limited mailboxes with you MOSS spam". So, do you see why this blog had to have a Prequell? This is just like a Public Service Announcement at the start of every Gangsta Rap CD.
Cut to the chase - this blog will be mainly about Office System 2007 (Client and Office Server). Why? Well, this has something to do with the fact that I'm the Office System MRD in Israel. What is MRD you ask? Good question and since this blog is all about information you'll get the full answer. That means official and unofficial Microsoft response:
- The official definitions goes something like this: "Microsoft Regional Director, MRD is defined to be the official Microsoft technical guy for the systems/technologies in his responsibility".
- Well, that got me puzzled as well so I did some investing and get to an unofficial and unsupported definition: MRD is one of those long titles that only the guy that has it believes it actually means something...
Ok - I think that's it for the Prequell post. Just remember, I'm planning to post a lot so if you're not a true Office System 2007 fans - think hard and long before you subscribe!
C ya next time,
Adir Ron.