just time for a couple of quick notes on Edge 2004 East

I finally got to meet Dave Seidel in person - we have a bit of a funny history so it was fun to meet up. I also got to catch up with Jim Murphy (leader of New Hampshire's .NET User Group who gave a fantastic talk to VTdotNET in June 2002 on GC) who also works at MindReef and got to spend some time getting some insights (and providing some feedback) on their awesome SoapScope web service analysis tool.

Carl Franklin, Pat Hynds, Ted Neward and Michael Steifel all came to my presentation. I decided not to be daunted by this pack of gurus and was extremely fortunate to have some truly wonderful feedback from these very experienced speakers after the fact.

After I did my talk, I found an email from Kit George with all kinds of great pointers to improve my deck (and my knowledge)! I'll implement them anyway since I will be uploading the deck as well as doing this talk again at DevTeach. Thanks Kit!

I got a pre-press copy of Paul Vick's new VB book for Addison-Wesley. Thanks Curt! And met another one of my email pals from A-W...Heather Mullane.

I was interviewed by Jeremy Geelan for sys-con radio to replace my (so bad I have never listened to it) interview they did at PDC. Only got asked one ringer question, the interview was fun. Here's the interview  (which I haven't listed to yet either)... and  they got a lovely photo of my nose...egads!!

I almost died of a heart attack as a back seat passenger of Pat Hynds car driving around Boston. I'm sure he and Ted are still laughing their asses off at what a whoos I am!

Thanks Derek for taking us to “Cheers” for dinner. After being surrounded by so many Java people for the days there, it was great to be with many of my .NET pals (that includes Ted)!

I attended Pat's ASP.NET Security talk. Can't hear these things too many times (especially in prep for next week's devdays talk.)

Had a total blast with Ted Neward - he and another pal of his from TSS and I went to the OLDEST restaurant in America  - the Union Oyster House.

Gotta run... Hopefully I'll get to come back and link. (did it!)