Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

 I did a particularly lousy job of sending out Christmas cards this year, so figured I would instead make a last ditch effort to bring some joy to the world through my blog. As you may have seen we have had a pretty interesting winter so far in Seattle with record amounts of snow bringing the city to a near stand still. The photo below shows the Microsoft campus from my office in B117.  Merry Christmas (or Happy Holidays if the former offends you :-)) to all and best wishes for the coming year.