As echoed by my colleague, Derek, Kuala Lumpur is a really nice place. The city itself is really pretty, the vegetation is nice, and the hospitality here has been nothing short of amazing. Everyone here seems really nice and very willing to serve, and I'm very happy with the treatment I've gotten here. Also, the hotel we stayed at is top-notch - easily the best hotel I've ever stayed in. However...

I am now in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, after two very successful MEDC events! As I mentioned before, the MEDC conference in Taipei was a huge success, and the one in Beijing was also quite popular! Very classy, and very BLUE - true to Microsoft tradition! I only presented one topic in Beijing - Introduction to XP Embedded - but I think it went quite well. This time around, the session was only 50 minutes...

Greetings from Beijing! The first set of presentations in the Asia tour are done, and they're saying here that the event in Taipei as a whole was a HUGE success! We had more than 1000 attendees - way too many people for the small convention space at the bottom of the Westin, and I personally delivered a speech on Windows XP Embedded to more than a hundred people. This is my first-ever business trip...

Hey everyone! It's about 7 in the morning here in Taipei, Taiwan, and I'm on the first leg of the MEDC Asia tour. Got in yesterday morning around 7:30am, and I just totally crashed a few hours later and slept in all the way until about 4 this morning. (I feel much better now.) My flight here was actually quite smooth. It got a little bumpy in places, but considering how nervous I am about turbulence...

Bonjour! It is 9am on Thursday morning in Nice on the last day of MEDC 2006 Europe. The sun is shining, the good strong coffee is flowing and everyone here in the Speaker Room is diligently typing away as they catch up on e-mail and other work. It is interesting comparing the European conference to the one in Las Vegas a few weeks back. The conference here is definitely a lot smaller (about 450...