another reason I like working for Microsoft

I love my job in so many ways. It's cool to work on Mac products, especially ones that millions of people use every day. But it's also pretty nifty to work for Microsoft. There are a lot of perks to working here. I'll wax poetic about most of that some other time.

One of the really cool things about working here is that we see a stream of really cool speakers. The MS Research speaker series alone gets at least ten speakers every month, judging by the email announcements I receive. And down here at this outpost we call SVC, we have our own speaker series.

Today, the speaker at SVC is one that sets my little Mac-lovin' heart a-flutter. Woz is coming here in support of his new book, iWoz: From Computer Geek to Cult Icon . I was originally scheduled to be on a flight right now, but you know that I just had to change my flights when I got this announcement.

It looks like he's doing a pretty reasonable tour for this new book. Check out his appearance schedule to see if he's coming to your area. (Sorry, but there only appear to be US appearances right now.) And his appearance schedule looks a lot cooler than the average book tour. He's doing The Colbert Report, NPR's Science Friday on Talk of the Nation, something with The History Channel, an appearance at the Commonwealth Club, something at Macworld Expo (yay!!!), and City Arts and Lectures from KQED public radio. So if he's not coming to you, you'll still be able to hear some interesting stuff from him. Science Friday has a podcast, so you can download that and listen.

Because I like you guys, I'll write up a post about seeing Woz in the flesh and post it over at Mac Mojo.