It's been quite a while since I last posted to my blog – July 10th to be exact. I've had a couple of good reasons, such as Microsoft's year-end review period (I have 12 to write), finalizing our FY10 business plans (we have events to plan, including a couple of product launches, community events to support and some online strategies to develop; my blog loosely falls under our online plans… other than the fact I've probably lost all my subscribers in the past nearly two months), and some much-needed vacation (10 days!).

Shortly after getting back from vacation I went to devLink 2009 in Nashville, TN. When I got back home it was time to celebrate my 16th wedding anniversary. (Trust me, I'll tie this back to Bing. Be patient.) As my wife and I were planning our evening (flowers, some shopping, dinner, and a movie), we decided to go to see Julie and Julia. (See: clever cooking reference.) I used Bing to search for movie times, and Bing delivered, making my life easy. Not only did it return the top results (every bit as accurate as other search popular engines), it's "deep search" feature returned movie times for theaters in my area (all I needed to do was configure my location).

Bing was so efficient I didn't even have to follow the results. We saw the times of all the theaters within a roughly 30 minute drive, made our decision, and left for dinner.

Cooking with Bing… Give it a try. Click the image to see the Julie and Julia results in your area – just be sure to configure your location first if needed. Bing does IP reverse-lookup, but that usually maps back to your ISP's home location.