My senior VP has an occasional blog going, and recently published a description of my job. I'd quibble with some details, but this is, essentially, what I do for a living. For now.
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I started a monthly meeting of (uber?) geeks at work. It's like a nano Google techtalk. We had our first shindig today and 25 people turned up. I'm hoping that it improves moral... it's working for me.
Another fun one for reading specs from a long time ago is that the actual feature name used in the product is never what we named it during development--the Office Assistant was famously named TFC during development. The "C" stood for clown. I will let your active imagination figure out what the TF stood for.