I was not going to mention that I was out of town until I was back, but Lori let the cat out of the bag. I'm at the MIX06 conference in Vegas. It's a big Microsoft shindig where they are presenting all of their new technologies (which are very impressive). The conference is billed as a conversation, a la Foo Camp, but it's more of a traditional show and tell, and I'm sure that's fine with most of the attendees. There is a bunch of open source types here and my guess is that the strategy here is to play open source friendly to try and get the hacker types on board. The 500lb gorilla in the room is that Microsoft's new technologies are really out to replace HTML, and their technologies aren't open standards, so I think geeks will walk away being impressed and potentially scared, but probably not motivated to port their stuff to the Microsoft technologies tomorrow.
Vegas is impressive as usual. It's huge and it makes me feel very small. I always find myself wondering when to tip and how much. We did manage to get off strip for dinner at an Ethiopian restaurant last night and that was good. It wasn't the best I've had, but it was a refreshing change from the mass market food we had been eating.
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