Jaspers' Weblog My personal blog about me, my work and what I like.
This post is following up on my tweet on the MVP program: Ah. It's that time of the year again where my timeline gets spammed with #mvpbuzz nonsense. Isn't there some nice teams channel you peeps can go circle jerk on? Thanks! — Jasper Siegmund (@jsiegmund) July 1, 2020 Ok, I admit that “circle jerk”
Since my outlook.com instance was upgraded to the ‘new’ experience, I’m having all kinds of issues. Two of the most annoying ones: my rules (junk sweep for instance) are not working. Not at all. Also, the synchronization on my mobile phone was pretty crappy, especially for people / contacts. It would not sync certain contacts
Having worked for four years at Atos now, early this year I began feeling like it might be time for something new. In these past four years I’ve learned a lot about how large companies work, having some of Hollands largest as my customers. It’s an intriguing world with it’s own problems, completely different from the
This week, Atos’ “Gold for Experts” intake three returned to Cambridge. It’s our final week of the program in which we’re due to present our projects to senior management (the CxO’s we’ve been targeting during the program). For those of you who have no idea what I’m talking about, you can look at my other
It’s always nice to get back home after an information packed week. Especially when the temperature is somewhere around 16 – 17 degrees and there’s sun for a change. Spring seems to be peeking around the corner, which is nice after a dull winter (almost no snow, no ice skating, why do we even call
If I were to count Sunday, which I probably could since I left around noon and most other guys left way more early, we’re already half way through this week of Gold for Experts. So time is flying once again, which is partially due to the ever so great weissbier they serve here in Germany. But
I’m coming from you live from Paderborn Germany, where we will have our second week of Gold for Experts. For those of you who missed my previous blog about the first week, you can find it here. It was always my plan to blog kind of live, but since my previous provider messed up my
The end of last year I was given the news that I had been selected for an internal Atos program called “Gold for Experts”. This program is targeted towards employees with a technical background, who also like to speak up when it comes to things like strategy and future vision. My manager signed me up
I love testing new stuff out. No, it´s not always perfect, but neither is the software I write myself. Making software perfect is a process of developing, getting it our there, reading your users´ responses and correcting the bits you´ve missed. It´s like that for me, it´s like that for Microsoft. So why not help
Not too long ago I wrote a corporate blog post (Dutch) about Windows 8 and why I love the idea. In that same post, I mentioned the great interactivity all Windows devices will get because of the shared core. Today, Microsoft officially anounced that shared core at their Windows Phone 8 conference. Yay! Not going