I spent most of most of my day in the Regional Director booth helping out with the GrokTalks. It was a great day. From hearing Billy Hollis preach to us about our code addictions, to seeing Scott Hanselman go through 10 utilities in 10 minutes, or Vishwas Lele telling us the secrets to AJAX programming they were all good sessions.

I even got to do my GrokTalk session. It was a lot harder than I had thought trying to look at the camera and not at the people behind the camera doing their own thing. I went a little long but hopefully with editing (I messed up one demo and went back and started from scratch on it) I will be under 10 minutes.

A great big thanks goes out to J. Michael Palermo IV who took over my duties on the production crew part way through the day so I could both do my session and take a break.

Scott Stanfield is working feverishly to edit the video and get it out there. We tried posting some of it but it looks like the firewall at the convention center is blocking us.

I had an experience with the people who "really run TechEd", the guys who let you into the meal hall and direct you to the appropriate line to get your food. (There was an article about it a while back that was very funny but I can't seem to find it right now). Scott Stanfield and I went to lunch but he forgot his badge in the booth. The guy at the door actually ran to catch up with us and tell us that Scott couldn't come in without a badge. I know the guy was just doing his job but for crying out loud, would Microsoft have missed one free meal? And besides, how was Scott supposed to get in the building without a badge?

In the evening I went to a Birds Of a Feather (BOF) session on developing as a non-administrator. It actually had a lot more discussion than the one I hosted last year. It seems like there are more people trying to use least privilege accounts.

The day ended with a party for "influencers" at a local night club. I am not sure this was such a good idea given the fact that there were about 200 men for each woman so there was very little dancing going on. When I walked in and heard the loud music I realized that I had turned into my dad complaining about the young people and their music. Oh well, I guess it was bound to happen some time .

Time to get ready for another exciting day of GrokTalks and other TechEd mayhem.