Artificial Ignorance - the Anand Iyer chronicles

3 weeks straight on the road... Greeting and meeting people I have never met before, socializing, doing sessions every day starting at 8am, stressing about my football teams, and then doing my regular day job has finally started to take its toll on me...

Sep 12–Sep 16 : PDC PDC was fun, but tiring. Guess who I ran in to and had lunch with at PDC : That's Miguel de Icaza , if you didn’t know… And I'm the 'real real' good looking guy (on the right) <wink> Sep 19–Sep 22 : Oracle Open World...

I’m just devastated by this loss… I mean, I couldn’t be at a lower point in my life. I haven’t slept since. I daydream about us stopping the 2 point conversion, or the kickoff not going out-of-bounds (which in my opinion were...

Everyday I learn something new. So you know we all got copies of Vista Beta 1 at PDC. I could’ve got it before since I work for the company and what not, but I wanted to experience what customers would experience if they were to install the OS in to a...

After every major conference I attend where I'm not speaking very much (MGB, PDC ), I start to dislike my team just a little more. I attended several breakout sessions and keynotes at PDC. And every time I see a speaker get on stage and present, I start...

I'm loving PDC. Its a phenomenal way to learn about not just about what we've been working on at Microsoft, but also to connect with industry partners of ours, and other customers. While the MS events team does just a freakin’ awesome job of putting...

Right, so, I’m no numerologist or anything. I can barely even add. But, there’s one thing I’ve had a close association with all my life, and that, is the number ‘9’. I was born on the 30th of June – 06/30. If you were to add up all the digits in the date...

A few days ago, PRC Compassion was brought to my attention. The website is a portal that can be used to make donations for the relief effort. PRC Compassion has also partnered with several local churches and organizations. Param R., the CTO of Sterling...

People, New MSDN events in the Northern California area have been scheduled for the month of October : Palo Alto, CA on 10/11/2005 Oakland, CA on 10/12/2005 See you there! “AI”

Are ya? If ya are, and your evening schedule has got holes in it, well, don’t fret. I’m gonna be there, and I’m gonna make sure I have as much fun as I possibly can (which shouldn’t be too difficult considering we’re gonna be in LA). So, drop me an...