TechEd 2006 Day 1 (part 3)

OK, who at Microsoft thought it was a good idea to do the keynote at night and have thousands of us all try and catch a bus to our hotel? You would expect them to load up a bus, then let it roll, and bring in another. Instead we fill a bus, let it sit, …

TechEd 2006 Day 1 (part 2)

After a great dinner at Legal Sea Foods (rainbow trout), I hopped the bus to head over for the keynote. As I expected the food tables had some snack/dessert items, so I grabbed a few things for later and headed into the seating area. The keynote hasn’t started yet, but the little coconut-filled chocolate cookies …

Boston = Pepsi Town?

You would expect that the split between restaurants serving Coke and Pepsi products would be fairly consistent. Instead, it seems like cities tend to lean one way or the other more so than I would expect. So far every restaurant I’ve been to in Boston serves Pepsi (yuck!) Even the convention center is a Pepsi …

TechEd 2006 Day 1 (part 1)

Grabbed a paper and headed over to Dunkin Donuts for breakfast. Haven’t been to one in years, but it was the closest bagel I could find. Finished the paper and walked back to the hotel to catch the bus (route 4) to the convention center. Didn’t take long to get there, but we’ll see how …

TechEd 2006 Day 0

Here’s the first of my daily wrap-ups of my TechEd 2006 experience. Actually, there isn’t much TechEd content today since it hasn’t technically started yet. Today was primarily about getting here. I mentioned some of this in previous posts, but I left St. Louis this morning on Southwest, heading to Baltimore (BWI). We arrived at …