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Photo Album: Simmons Report: AGLOCO
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Will the House Recess By Thanksgiving? Ho, Ho, Ho, Hoyer Doesn't Think So
House leaders had to dish up some disappointment Tuesday to colleagues who might have been hoping to make plans for long holiday vacations.
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TechEd Australia - Day 1
Well - Day 1 where the count starts at 0. The Welcome Party was yesterday but the keynote was this morning - so I'll call today Day 1.It certainly gives an interesting perspective on the size of a conference when one has been to one 10 times the size, and one 10th the size in the past couple of months.TechEd Australia has very much the same"feel" as TechEd in the US, except in miniature.There is less polish, less swag, less wide open space - in fact the entire Exhibition Hall area including MS Technology Showcase, Partner and Sponsor stalls, Commnet, Community booths and Cabanas could fit in the area that meals were held in at the Orlando version of TechEd.The Hands on Labs environment is unfortunately tucked away a bit from the main traffic, and occupies a room that is perhaps 1/6 the size of the one of the Orlando HoLs (there were two there - split in to ITPro and Dev - here they are all together). Instructor Led Labs are held in 1 room with about 28 machines, instead of 4 rooms with over 50 each, and the number of labs available to be done is significantly down from the Orlando menu (which had around 300).Having said that - it is definitely easier to bump into or find people you know. On the first night (Welcome party) I caught up withMichael Kleef,Steve Riley,Jeff AlexanderandTrika Harms zum Spreckel, as well as a host of other people that I eitherworkedwith, or knew from other places. Not as"familiar" as perhaps SAGE-AU - where I knew considerably more people - but there wasn't the same feeling of being lost in a huge crowd as TechEd US was (though that may well be due in part to it having been my first trip to the US).This is my 3rd TechEd, and I feel comfortable here. While there is the occasional"sea-gull" rush when there is a prize draw or other special event, it doesn't feel like being at a large country fair with load noises of disparate groups scattered over a large area vying for the attention of the assembled masses. It feels more cohesive and relaxed - more so than TechEd in Sydney last year - though that could also be in part due to the weather here on the Gold Coast.I actually managed to get to some speaker sessions. From the title it isn't always obvious if they are targeted at ITPro or Dev, so I walked out of Principles and Patterns of Security when it turned out to be focussed on code reviews. And some go in to a little more technical detail than they need to. Leave that stuff for online resources and information available at the Technology Showcase - just give me the WOW to encourage me to seek it out - I can't remember everything that gets said in a 75 minute lecture - even with a few demos sprinkled in. That's what drove me from the IIS7 and Web Server 2008 for ITPros. Cool stuff but the number of people that left through the talk supports my theory.Yeah - I could just sit in onSteve RileyandKai Axford's talks which are always entertaining, but I know the security stuff so I don't actually learn anything new from them - and for me - that is the reason for going to speaker sessions (and TechEd in general).There will be other blogs with pictures and notes on sessions (eg. keynote) which I will add links to (apart from those already listed above), but I have my first sessions assisting in the Instructor Led Labs this afternoon and my own ILL to present tomorrow morning, so some preparation is still required.
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Mel Blanc as "Barney Rubble" from "Flintstones, The (1960)"
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Retail Account Executive - Everett* (Clearwire)
Retail Account Executive At Clearwire, our employees are known as Partners, as we believe it better represents our core values and the mutual commitment, dedication and passion we all share for making Clearwire a great company. Clearwire partners play aLocation: Everett, WASource: Jobs.net