I didn't hear a word you said.  I was distracted by your hypnotizing handsomeness.  I'll have to watch it again with my eyes closed...

Rory, are you a snake ?  The reason I ask this is that you look really different in every picture/video in every post/event.  So, do you shed your skin at regular intervals to reveal new avatars for every new event or blog post.  I saw your video about creating .net database applications for Pocket PC on MSDN TV and you looked a whole lot different.  Your updates on your useless podcast have a different kind of image.  And now this video.  Whats with all this???

Gah, you know SG-1 got canceled right?

http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=2&id=37607

Whew. Congratulations. Brilliant!

I think you should spend more time on the thing that fell over.

so were do you get your black shirt and jeans - fanTAStic.

where is the c9 team based? is it related to the c4 team? ahh 'on campus' i'll have to through pies at you one day.

so why 'the smartest man in the world' not 'the smartest person in the world'....

different dna? what are you saying here - you have *differnet* parents to scoble? *crazy*

doesn't AT+T have a trade make on the friendly happy deathstar?

and what was up with the bean bag? what were those things!

only the whole of humanity? that is SO alienist!

meh

Rory,

Does 'Munich Local Govt.' and 'Linux Migration' ring a bell?

http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Munich_fires_up_Linux_at_last/0,130061733,339271286,00.htm?feed=rss

It took 2 years to migrate 100 users, but hey they are still going forward!

Good Rory, cant wait to see you there on Channel 9.  I still have a couple of active accounts I will use to check out your content.  Good luck with it.

Hemil -

"Rory, are you a snake ?"

Yes.

"So, do you shed your skin at regular intervals to reveal new avatars for every new event or blog post."

Yes.

Guy -

"I didn't hear a word you said.  I was distracted by your hypnotizing handsomeness.  I'll have to watch it again with my eyes closed..."

I do look rather dapper, don't I?

Ricky -

"Gah, you know SG-1 got canceled right?"

I didn't, but it makes sense. Without Richard Dean Anderson, the show is, like, even stupider than it was before.

Windows Mobile Nerd -

"where is the c9 team based? is it related to the c4 team? ahh 'on campus' i'll have to through pies at you one day."

OK. Just give me ample warning before you through pies at me!

Thank you!

Awesome interview, at least the first 6 minutes of it that I was able to watch before having to return to work.

Hmm.  Purell pies.

I couldn't concentrate either. Rory shook hands. Good to see you'll still be under the Microsoft umbrella.

Congratulations!

I always thought you'd be a great match for Channel 9, and it's fantastic that someone in that group realised it too.

Hope it turns out to be everything you want it to be.

Congrats. This is pretty cool. I've always like Robert Scoble, but I think it's going to be great to have you and Charles, who know code, do these interviews. Best of luck

Great news Ror, this is just what C9 needs.  It'll encourage me to pay attention to it again.

With regards your avatar on this page - did you go and get some headshots done dude?  Pppppppppppp.... :)

Big congrats.

rowrie - i'll see what i can do - no garentees - but it would make a good end to a c9 episode. heh - heh - heh, i'll be over in a month or so....

I have a video request, - playing golf with Bill,  Steve and Ray.

Nice video...it was nice to actually *see* you again.  

And yes, you do look rather handsome in teh black shirt.

Very nicely done, Mr. Blyth.

P.S.  In future interviews, you probably shouldn't throw things at your interviewer...but, it's just a suggestion.

do you consider yourself ocd or adhd?
because i am the owner and operator or the short-attention-span-theater but you sir make me look like a statue!

Dear Geoff -

"Awesome interview, at least the first 6 minutes of it that I was able to watch before having to return to work."

Watch the rest, dickhead.

RidiculousX -

"Rory shook hands."

That was a stunt hand. My stand-in was disguised a a C9 beanbag, and I was sitting on him.

There's actually much more production in C9 than people know.

Ian -

"I always thought you'd be a great match for Channel 9, and it's fantastic that someone in that group realised it too."

I *know* how you feel about it :)

And I'm glad you're happy I'm staying at MS. It's certainly better than the opposite...

AndyToo -

"With regards your avatar on this page - did you go and get some headshots done dude?"

The shots are actually almost two years old :)

They were for some marketing thingy. I sometimes cut them up and use them for my own purposes.

Like here.

Tee -

"Nice video...it was nice to actually *see* you again."

I've been thinking about posting videos from your trip out (just for you, of course - I wouldn't make them public) so you could watch them and get all sad the way I do.

But then I thought it'd be crappy to make you all nostalgic and sad.

So I didn't.

"And yes, you do look rather handsome in teh black shirt."

For serious.

"P.S.  In future interviews, you probably shouldn't throw things at your interviewer...but, it's just a suggestion."

Hey - who's the professional moron here?

Huh?

Yeah.

I think I'm doing all right, yo. If you were here, I'd hit you with something, of course (note to HR and PR which are both no doubt scanning my site like mad now that I have this job: the object with which I would strike the female to whom I am speaking would be soft and filled with feathers - the only pain she would feel is that of joy unbridled).

holymole-y -

"do you consider yourself ocd or adhd?"

I consider myself to be, perhaps, the foremost thinker, visionary, and genius in the history of the entire human race.

If it weren't for all the other morons who came before me, I totally would have invented electricity... and... um... machines... and water-wings... philosophy - yup - that's another one... and aspirin... and quantam something-or-other... and stuff like that. And also math. And maybe art and spelling.

But I didn't.

What was your question?

Rory, congrats and best of luck (as if you need any)! I love the swaying of the legs. I have zero recollection of what you actually said but all I see are your legs... swaying and then it looks like you're giving birth with your legs still...swaying. Mesmerizing. I'm coming home and watching it over and over again.

Who's/What's Channel 9?

Maya (who is not my sister whose name is also Maya) -

"Mesmerizing. I'm coming home and watching it over and over again."

Wow.

:)

George -

"Who's/What's Channel 9?"

It's Channel 8 + 1.

I suppose this means that, being on campus, you now have a more direct source for Microsoft writing pads right? I'm down to my last one, and for some reason, going through and writing Microsoft on the top of every page of the normal ones I have hasn't done the trick.

Rory, I just watched the video. You totally *are*.

I still look forward to your Channel 9 videos. As long as you aren't like showing off your perfume and stuff.

8 + 1/2 - Federico Fellini's most acclaimed work, along with La Dolca Vita, 8 1/2 won the Best Foreign Film Oscar in 1963 and is one of the great films about moviemaking. The title comes from Fellini's previous six solo films plus three collaborations which count as a half each, making 8 1/2.

To celebrate the new job you might want to buy yourself a new mouse. This looks like it was made for you!

http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/27/germ-free-wireless-laser-mouse-will-kill-micro-organisms/

Rory -

(at Geoff) "Watch the rest, dickhead."

Hey, now, watch your mouth, I kinda like Geoff, he's nice.

"Watch the rest, dickhead."

So...there's a new dickhead in town. Not sure how I feel about that Rory.

eblonk -

"Hey, now, watch your mouth, I kinda like Geoff, he's nice."

Don't worry :) He knows I'm kidding.

We practically lived together for a while.

Rory -

"We practically lived together for a while."

Did you like the perfume he wore, or is that why it didn't work out?

George -

"Did you like the perfume he wore, or is that why it didn't work out?"

Geoff smelled liked Geoff Hair.

You do the math, my friend.

*You* do the math.

Aww....my widdle brudder is growing up...
http://letskilldave.com/archive/2006/09/28/Welcome-to-Channel-9_2C00_-Rory_2100_.aspx

Rory -

"We practically lived together for a while."

And Mark M. knows this? And do you know what he makes of that? And now Mark thinks you.... good grief, you probably have (and still are) messing with his head about it.

To be honest, I thought you were, then I thought you were both, then I let my wife decide and she said you're weren't and not both either - she is always right, so the decision is final: you are not.
But you might want to mess with Mark's head a bit more making him think you might be both (I tried to do that in the millahseconds 3 comments, so if he gives you looks that are stranger still then what you got so far, you know where it's from).

btw I don't see how living with Geoff can be practical. But you survived.... kudos, man.

Can't believe it's almost October. I haven't blogged in a while, but it's time I did.

I wanted to...