I’m at PDC 2005 Today!

On first impression things seem alot smaller. Everything is not so spread out. This is a good thing. However, I think the glory days of sending people to these things are long over. The industry has matured. (Or I have and maybe I don’t get so excited over this stuff anymore) Also the spending days seem to be long over and I think the outsourcing of jobs has done it number on the industry here in the US.

The breakfast was ok. Not as good as they have been in the past. This could be because today is not the offical day of the conference. Sunday and Monday are pre conference days. I signed up for the one today because there seems to be two sessions that are very interesting to what I am doing right now with one my clients.

The WIFI is much better than it has been in the past. Right now I am sittting in a very comfortable chair doing this post.

They also have a lot of computers available to use . I jumped on it and it so different than previous conferences. So simple and easy to use than before. They finally started eating their own dog food and have you use your passport account to log in. However there is no longer a place to send emails to other conference attendees. I guess no one used it before. Oh well. It funny how stuff that they thought in the past was so important, is not.

Speaking of sending emails to others; there is no one I know hear this year. They have a OMPL of all the attendees and I could not find anyone from the past. I guess people are not working for companies that can send them to these anymore or they just got out of the business. Their is my old pal Brian Randall here from the M1 days. I go by and say hi. The last couple of times I’ve seen him he’s been quite cold to me. Not sure why. Maybe because I told him I don’t believe in all this Microsoft talk anymore. Sometimes I think that he thinks that Microsoft and Gates is the second coming!

I plan on during the week to post anything that I find interesting.

This is like my 5th PDC and I vow to do things differently this time.

• 1) Go to the birds of feather sessions
• 2) Actually go to the labs and finsih all of them
• 3) Spend most of my time at the conference.