Today marks my 1-year anniversary of joining Yahoo to work on the Messenger team. I should probably chart my blog postings during that time to see how they’ve slowed — last year I had a better balance between work and personal time but in 2005 it’s really swung towards work. On the plus side, it’s good to be working for a company with a generally-rising stock price. Of course, Palm was like that for a while too, so I know better than to count on these things… :)
I just returned from a few days in Vegas for this year’s Perforce User Conference. Overall it was a great event. We had two pretty full days of presentations by both Perforce as well as users. The talks were pretty good, but the best value was meeting many of the folks from Perforce and industry, making contacts, and getting our questions answered.
For the past week or so, I’ve been having trouble with running Messenger where I could when a buddy was typing and I could send text, but could not receive. I figured it was something funky with the current project we’re working on, so I uninstalled and went back to 6.0 which had the same problem. I know that Messenger uses host IE browser controls for much of the dynamic content, so I dug a little deeper and found some other similar applications were also busted (like System Restore and Windows Help Center). (It was a little disconcerting that System…