"So, a booth babe and a geek walk in to a bar..."

Thank you for all the very nice e-mails and comments and good-lucks. I really appreciate it. You guys are great. Some of you, like Pollerunner, have asked things like this: "Where are we now going to get this informantion?" Lots of official...

This is the news: I have decided that I am going to do another job at Microsoft, so I won’t be your certification front-man anymore. This is not a particularly big deal for Microsoft, or Microsoft Learning, or for you. But it is for me! I will miss...

You probably saw this note from Gerry about Team Foundation Server . And here are the dates for training kits* for VIsual Studio exams with the book reference (ISBN) numbers, if this is something you care about. MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-562...

Miklos* just sent this to me and I wanted to pass it on for any of you considering taking the Desktop Optimization exam I was talking about a few days ago . Here's an offer you should look at , involving jackets and free exams and what not. *Shout-out...

You guys were such a hit with your little hat slogans that they ended up being made for a bunch of different TechEd events around the world (I hope some of you reading this got one), and our marketing team is going to make some new ones for next year...

Something I learned at TechEd is that if you call anything a “smackdown” it seems cool, and less boring than if you do not call it that. There was some session called the Mobility Smackdown , and it seemed like everyone was all amped about...

I got an e-mail a while ago, a question about a braindump site, that has me doodling hearts and humming Pachelbel's Canon. The e-mail came from a customer named Tino Donderwinkel. Now, is it just me, or is this Cupid's work: Mrs. Trika Harms zum Spreckel...

All the virtualization geeks at TechEd last week were wearing VEEK t-shirts. Pretty sweet. I'm going to make shirts for pretty sweet geeks, they'll say SWEEK. In other news, here is a little write-up about our plans for virtualization-related certs all...

The shoe circus with Bill Gates? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImyK29QLs_A . And, am I the only person to get locked in the accessible* restroom at the Sydney conference center, minutes before her chalk talk? Perhaps the only presenter at TechEd who...

Yeah, OK, so Trika told you about this already , but I thought I'd come back here personally to let you all know, if you didn’t already, that the Master Program application link is live ! We opened the door, as promised this Tuesday and have had a great...

Look what our boy Jorgen did . I think it's really clear and helpful. Here's the full poast on it.

And I'm humming a little song about how it's nice in Australia, when you have a Tim Tam, and you might see a wombat on the weekend. Mmm-hm. Updated Sept 30 with some pictures/ Excom team in New Zealand Two MCITP: US History Majors in Orlando Fermin in...

If I can fly for 14 hours to get here, you can come up to Bayside room 202 for my session. It's at 10:15 AM today. I'll go over the WS2008 certs (I feel like a broken record but a lot of people don't know this stuff yet*) and virtualization certs, system...

If you won't believe me, for once, here's the official news about the 40% offer i was on about earlier: http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/offers/discount/default.mspx And, some of you have already noticed the Master registration is open, with some...

Can you hear me from down here?

I just heard about this certification evening coming up in Malaysia. I'm not there, but maybe you are? Microsoft Learning's general manager, Lutz, will be talking and it will likely be a really interesting gathering. Thanks, Foong Chee, for sending! Here...