Microsoft Watch - Vista - Stacking Vista Licenses Too High

Microsoft Watch - Vista - Stacking Vista Licenses Too High

From a personal stand point I am thinking MS is including all of their renewing EA customers as a "sold" license to bolster the claim. I continue to have problems with support in my organization as the core OS does not support even our simple requirements. Additionally add-ons like the Motorola devices do not have appropriate support and Adobe tools are hit or miss. Bad timing and not a complete plan for rolling this out will cause MS headaches for months.

The Digital Ice Age - Popular Mechanics

The Digital Ice Age - Popular Mechanics

This is all way to true. How much faith do we put in the media types we have used in the past. At least with film or with vinyl we have the chance to recover the information in a low-tech way. Something brings back to mind the LCD principles we learned in grade school about how we can find the most basic way to store and retrieve information. Anyone have 8 tracks? What ever happened to the great Journey songs that you wanted to get back, or what about images taken with a proprietary image format from older cameras...something to be said for getting these in a simple way.

JHOVE - JSTOR/Harvard Object Validation Environment

JHOVE - JSTOR/Harvard Object Validation Environment

This is a pretty interesting little tool to manage validation of digital repositories. Just starting to get a feel for the implementation, however it seems to be based on the OAI specs.

There are some nice links and it looks like this thing is attached to the LGPL which makes it very nice.

Well, I didn't do such a good job blogging on-site. Most of my classes were away from the main wireless and I wasn't willing to pay the $19 to hit the public site.

All-in-all the conf was good.
The last keynote was not as inspiring as I would have hoped, although the manufacturing prototype has my mental gears turning
I found a nice new pen that my wife loves and plans to push at our school
The SQL and performance classes rocked
The project management classes, not so much
Sharepoint is not an operating system, however it is a platform
I would like to have spent time in the testing center and regret not making the effort.

For future reference (and not very important):
- Keynotes were ok.
- Comfort Inn was terrible
- You can hoof most anywhere in SD, however beware 6th below ash - not a friendly place at night
- Taxis are useless in the city - most of the cabbies were honest but some took round about paths to get from place to place.
- Shout is a great place and fun

End of day sessions have gone well. Looks like most folks are burning out. I am particularly interested in what Ballmer has to say in the morning. Lots of useful information - unfortunately I cannot send any of that out, but I can see big value in having it.

Looks like MS is clinginig tightly to dexterity. There does not look like a direct push to rool dex into the .NET platform. They will be supporting this until 2013 (tentatively.) I think they will need to move away from this quicker and maybe create a Dex.NET language or method to port dex code and create a road map for custom work.

Day 3 - sessions seem to be slow today. Interesting presenter in the morning session, Joel Barker, made a recommendation to make sure you checkout a site called http://www.implicationswheel.com. Also made a suggestion to look up a man by the name of Tor Dahl - you can find his home page here. http://www.tordahl.com/ Actually some nice articles on the site regarding productivity, you should go read them.


BTW:Food is very good here. Weather is wonderful - light breeze.
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Aha....I found the evals. https://www1.msconvergence.com/content/myevals.aspx

Sitting at MS Convergence 2007

I am currently sitting in my first MS Convergence conference and learning that there is a lot of pain in using the MS tools on the convergence site. So far registration and transportation has been a snap.

Also learning that MS Commuities, esp. for SNAP does recognize that the www.gotdotnet.com website is going away, even though it holds all of the snap content. There was no real answer on how they will support this in the future, other than they will be rehosting this information elsewhere.

User group information is particularly helpful, but difficult to navigate.

Still trying to figure out how to complete evals on the sessions...