It's that time of year again for the Windows/Microsoft conferences that I go to - and a bit of a bummer on both:

Windows in Higher Education conference 2011. This is one that staff from several universities and Microsoft jointly put together so that we can go to Redmond and drag technical people out of their offices to talk to us.  On the plus side ( Read more... )

As of the end of 2008, I have lifted a space shuttle - though, yes, it is more properly known as the Space Transportation System  or STS. This was a goal stated on someone's blog that WireGryphon told me about and I thought "What the heck". Now I am looking for a new goal, but an Iowa-class battleship - the Missouri, of course - is a bit too far ( Read more... )

Well, the subject pretty much sums up my reaction. I did not really think much about it having been in stronger earthquakes before. The only thing that struck me later was that I did not even think anything of it while it was going on. I dialed in to work to make sure everything was cool there and it was ( Read more... )

Today, I went to the TechNet 2006 innovation summit. This was interesting mostly in that in the manymany times I have been to Redmond and the many MS product launches I have been to, this was the first time seeing Mr. Gates (not even "live via satellite"). I would have to say that Reed Hastings (NetFlix) and Bill Gates were the interviewees that ( Read more... )