Today concluded the new employee orientation, and I got my badge/smartcard/mealcard/buspass/etc, so I'm free to enter any building, although I look like an idiot in my picture (as usual, some would say).  I also got my office, machines, email, parking permits, etc set up. I'm still looking at blogging policies and so forth, so I'm not going to say much more about that for now.

It's very cool to wander around the halls and see the names of other CLR bloggers like Joe Duffy, Krzysztof Cwalina, the guys that post to the BCLTeam blog, etc. So far, I've really only talked with my manager, some people on my team, and some other random people, but I hope to get a chance to meet and talk with more of them.

For those who are wondering, I'm an SDET on the Execution Engine team in the CLR group.  My ownership area at first will be what they call the "shim".  This is more or less mscoree, which I'll discuss more in later posts, but it basically does the job of loading up a relevant version of the CLR and getting everything going.

I'm still trying to decide how to handle the transition of this blog.  I believe I have a few options:

• Create an msdn blog and use it for MS-related and/or technical content and use this blog for personal stuff.
• Create an msdn blog and cross-post technical stuff to it, while still using this blog for everything.
• Continue using only this blog.

I've had alot of non-technical content lately due to the move, and posting stuff for my friends and family, but I expect the technical content to ramp back up after a few weeks.  I'm interested in the opinion of my readers on what direction I should take.

BTW, For those of you that keep asking me to send you some of our rain, it's raining this evening for the first time since we've been here (almost 2 weeks).  It's also quite chilly out.  The forecast indicates it'll be sunny again by Thursday and stay that way for at least a week.  They say the "rainy season" won't start until the end of Sept.