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The time is running fast. It's already been six weeks here in Redmond and so far the experience is great!

I didn't have a lot of time to work on my picture database. I took about 4gigs of photos and most of them are uploaded but not accessible yet.

At work I'm on good on track with progress and I'm hoping to see my feature in the beta already instead in the version one.

For most of the interns the internship is over. Last week Matt which was the tester for my feature left Redmond. Serena and others are leaving soon. Also the weather is getting worse. It's raining almost every day now, for at least in the morning. Most of the time, the afternoon and evening are still nice and warm.

I will try to update this blog as frequent as possible, but there is just so much going on here, that it's hard to focus on this, too.

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9月13日

Here is my new apartment

I moved to a new apartment, here it is: Windows Live Local map

It's about one mile from my office and my roomate is Wilco Bauwer.

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8月8日

First day

So this is it. I'm sitting in my office for the first time - at Microsoft Corporation! After the full morning of a shortened NEO (yes, the first and definitely not last abreviation which stands for New Employee Orientation) we tried to get our badges. They didn't have mine ready and neither I didn't receive my login, yet. After a lunch out of a box I'm rode with my bicycle (a detailed post on that follows) over to building 116 where I'll be working at the CAT team (Customer Assist Technology). I got a good introduction of the overall setting and specifically what our team does. And then at four o'clock we changed rooms to the first dev (developer) meeting.

One thing is to notice: The free drinks can be dangerous here. There is a huge selection of every imaginable soda. I stick to Caffeine Free Diet Coke which is basically nothing than taste (The only contents listed on the nutrition facts table is Sodium with 40mg/can which is I think pretty ok).

I shot some pictures of today which will follow later here.

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8月5日

Arrived.

The flight over Amsterdam was quite hassle-free but rather long. After a taxi ride of about 40 minutes I arrived at the key pickup location. They key wasn't ready yet, so I sat down in the lounge and they had a free wireless hot spot and free coffee ready! After checking the emails I didn't need a phone and organised the everything over email. 20 minutes later a car was here and drove me to my apartment. The location changed again and about that I was a bit disappointed - I guess the jet lag fostered that, too.

The apartment is about 5km up on the same road as my office will be - on the 148 Ave. NE.

Here's the updated collection with the location: http://local.live.com/?v=2&cid=A7BB3C21FCDE202C!166

As you can see I my apartment is situated in a apartment complex. The house consists of only 6 apartments and I live on the second floor, facing both the apartment complex side and with the balcony directly the thick forest behind! The complex has its own pool, fitness center and large, open to use for everyone who lives here!

The apartment itself is a huge one bedroom apartment which we would call in Switzerland a 3.5 rooms flat. It has lots of walk-in closets which I like, a bedroom with a large walk-in closet and a king-size bed, a bathroom with a tub, a living room with fireplace and television, a kitchen with attached washer and dryer room, a dining room with a large dining table and a balcony with a special outside room to store the bbq grill! I will post photos as soon as the light is good - it's a quarter to eight in the morning.

So today, I will start exploring the surroundings and buy a bicycle as fast as possible - the dimensions here are really different ...

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