{"id":287,"date":"2008-11-03T16:32:21","date_gmt":"2008-11-03T23:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/?p=287"},"modified":"2008-11-03T16:33:27","modified_gmt":"2008-11-03T23:33:27","slug":"pdcd-about-to-hec-the-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/pdcd-about-to-hec-the-win\/","title":{"rendered":"PDC’d… about to HEC the Win"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kevin & Ricky @ the Demo Booth<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There’s been all kinds of fun craziness (some of it even work-related) since I’ve been here in LA.\u00a0 PDC was all about Windows Azure and Windows 7, which is really cool.\u00a0 I can finally start talking publicly about the work my team has been doing, in particular the work done by my team on Windows Troubleshooting which will make more sense to the average person than the stuff I work on directly.\u00a0 It’s really cool stuff.\u00a0 All of it.<\/p>\n

The talk itself went well, despite being nervous as hell.\u00a0 But I think that all the hard work paid off.\u00a0 I get to reprise a longer version of my part later this week at WinHEC, so we’ll see how well that goes.\u00a0 The talk went well enough that I’m even\u00a0willing to post a link to it: http:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/pdc2008\/PC50\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

PDC itself was a blast.\u00a0 It was great to meet people that care about the work we do on Windows, who get really geeked out by it, and want to see it keep getting better and better.\u00a0 That was exceptionally rewarding.\u00a0 There was an Ask-The-Experts event where all of us speakers got to mingle with attendees\u00a0and help them with their questions, which was a lot of fun.\u00a0 After which I headed over to the Edison (awesome bar!) for a free-flowing open bar and an evening of mildly geeky conversation which made for one of my best nights here.\u00a0 It was this VIP event that I got wind of via the wonderful world of twitter\/#PDC2008.\u00a0 Thank you, twitterati for making PDC much more interactive than any conf I’ve ever been at.<\/p>\n

One of the highlights of PDC was going to Universal Studios: the park was rented out for PDC on Tuesday night.\u00a0 Free alcohol for all.\u00a0 No lines to wait in.\u00a0 And pigs with chainsaws.<\/p>\n

Yes, chainsaws.\u00a0 I love love love Halloween, and Universal did a great job of\u00a0turning the park into a halloween\u00a0heavan.\u00a0\u00a0They had a complete cast of extra actors running around scaring the crap out of people.\u00a0 And the haunted houses were A-May-Zing.\u00a0 I jumped like a teenage girl more than I care to admit.\u00a0 It made me want to be back in highschool working in haunted houses again!<\/p>\n

And tomorrow kicks off WinHEC… it’s almost\u00a0more geeky fun than this man can handle!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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