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I’ve used the I Drive trolley service in Orlando a couple times now here at TechEd, and I’m not impressed. The trolleys on the green line are supposed to run every 30 minutes. Instead I waited over 45 minutes, only to have the driver insist that she had been there more recently than that. Well, unless she can warp time and space, that was a flat out lie. It wouldn’t have been so bad, but the previous day I heard the same driver say the same thing while she talked to a dispatcher about a customer who called to say he had been waiting for an hour. I understand there are a lot of people in town and that things might be running behind schedule. If she had said that was the reason, I would have understood, but I don’t appreciate a lie.

After the driver insisted I was wrong, I told her to just let me off and that I didn’t appreciate how rude they were. I definitely won’t use the service again and will not likely stay in this area again. It was a good reminder why I usually stay on Disney property when I come to Orlando.

TechEd Day 2 (they count Sunday as Day 1) was a pretty good start to the week although there have been a few issues.

Ballmer’s keynote ran over by quite a bit, causing some people to miss the beginning of their sessions or had sessions cut short. They only have one entrance to the room so it is very slow for people to get in and out. Not sure if they did this because of the RFID demo they are doing (there are readers at the entrance and everyone was given a RFID tag they could choose to carry with them for the demo) or what.

Samantha Bee from the Daily Show is here doing fake IT news bits during the keynote. Not as funny as the Daily Show, but pretty good. Later in the day I had someone from Sweden ask me who she was.

I went to three sessions yesterday, skipping the last timeslot to get some work done since none of the topics did much for me. The best session yesterday was MGT380 Practical Group Policy: Application and Usage (Part 1) with Mark Williams, no contest. I