It's Sunday today and TechED starts tomorrow. I got into Orlando yesterday morning then took the shuttle ride from hell to the hotel. Our driver ran on 230 v while we cruse 120. A nice enough guy, just he like to 'command' his passengers and he probably heard 'voices' on route! Anyway, made it to my room, grabbed a snack then instead of doing my TechReady deck (a Microsoft event in August) I crashed for 16 hours straight.

This morning TechED registration started at 10:00, and there was already a massive lineup by 9:40. On the way over to the conference center I missed a photo op (camera was out of power) when I ran into the TechED Podcast crew getting lessons on their Segways. The doors opened right at 10 and the whole linup was gone in 15 - 20 minutes. The conference center (Orange County Convention Center) is massive, and the TechED organizing staff are really good; they'd better be with 11,000 people expected during the week. Anyway, picked up my TechED bag stuffed with a ton of swag, and made a dash to the speakers lounge to make a quick change to my presentation deck. Overheard some of the other speakers talk about what will be shown this week, terms like 'wall of fire' and 'battle bots' were raised and if you have been watching some of the earlier Microsoft events you should start to get an image that this TechED the folks from Redmond are out to put on a big show. 

Only thing I need to do today is attend some manditory speakers session with the organizers later this afternoon, and drop by some bash my group (Arch Strategy) are hosting somewhere around here.

/Dave