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Saturday, May 29, 2004 2:41 AM

TechEd Day 6

Day 6, and I'm all teched-ed out. I've had a tremendously good time this year. Met shedloads of interesting people, had lots of challenging discussions about all sorts of stuff (not all of it techspeak), spent crucial breaktimes lolling about in the sun
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Friday, May 28, 2004 5:24 PM

TechEd Day 5

A quiet start to the day. No dirigible fun. Then two splendid new Office programmability tools presented on the same day (more below)! First, I spent the morning in the BPR Cabana answering questions about Office Developer Technologies and Tools. These
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Thursday, May 27, 2004 7:53 AM

TechEd Day 4

Well now, wasn't today interesting. Started the day rehashing the age-old discussion about Linux. This was healthy debate triggered by Mark Russinovich's session 'A Tale of Two Kernels'. The people at my table were saying that increasingly, Linux is seen
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Wednesday, May 26, 2004 2:58 AM

TechEd Day 3 - later

Finally caught hold of the DataGrid Girl. Harangued her for telling fibs about little debbies. Turns out she was misled also, and fully expected little debbies in San Diego. So not her fault after all. The conversation turned to American Idols and Nutter
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Tuesday, May 25, 2004 5:31 PM

TechEd Day 3

OfficeZealot has started an IBF Zone dedicated to sharing ideas, experiences, code samples and anything related to building solutions based on the Microsoft Office Information Bridge Framework. Includes contributions from Charles 'Ice Cream' Maxson, and
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Tuesday, May 25, 2004 6:50 AM

TechEd Day 2 - later that day

As the day wears on, and the sun goes down, its time to head down to the Exhibit Hall. The place is heaving. Lots of stands with people demo-ing interesting stuff. The usual tables laden with food (although still no little debbies - Marcie are you listening?).
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Tuesday, May 25, 2004 12:55 AM

TechEd Day 2

The keynote this morning saw SteveB at his usual level of passion and volume. Someone should explain to him about microphones and sound amplification. Then again, can you imagine a subdued SteveB? (and what would be the point?). Anyway, IBF (Information
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Sunday, May 23, 2004 9:24 PM

TechEd Day 1

Pitched up last night, got a hotel room with a view of the bay (if I squash my face up against the window and squint a little - be handy to be one of those fish where one eye has migrated round to the other side of their face). Anyway, sitting in Cabana
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Friday, May 14, 2004 9:59 PM

TechEd and Little Chocolate Snakes

I shall be going to TechEd this year, and I'm really rather looking forward to it. However, I'm a little confused about the reports of chocolate snakes , and so forth , and somewhat intrigued by the little debbies , whatever they might be. In England,
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