A Yankee in Texas

The first day of sessions went well and I fell like I learned a lot. Granted most of it is focused on design which isn’t my area of expertise, but it’s good to be able to understand the possibilities and limitations of front end design. That being said a lot of the presentations have been by folks from vendors like Microsoft and Apple so they’ve been delivered with a stealth bias.

Last night was the Microsoft party…. it was pretty cool. We ended up with plenty of drink cards so we drank for free and played some Guitar Hero 2. I met and talked to some cool people… even if they are designers. Tonight is the Adobe party at the Lizard Lounge I believe.

I was planning on posting some pics, but I can’t seem to locate my card reader. Oh well…. I will post them when I find it.

– Jeremy

it’s a beautiful day. I had a hard time getting to sleep last night; as a result I had a hard time waking up this morning, but I made it down to breakfast. I had some very good pancakes and bacon. We checked in to the “Webmaster Jam” and the Microsoft guys had an Xbox set up. I fragged my co-workers for a little while. I guess that time Ben and I spent playing Halo 2 paid off.

Now we are waiting for the keynote to start. We lucked out and got seats that have tables for out laptops. Eddie also got the network key so we could log on to the wifi. They also have free Red Bull. As you can see it’s shaping up to a very beautiful day indeed….

– Jeremy

So the Jaduka development team is in Dallas for the “Webmaster Jam”. It’s an interesting opportunity to be exposed to somethings that we normally aren’t exposed to and to rub elbows with the same type of folks that we deal with during customer implementations.

Why is it that the more expensive the hotel is the less likely they are to have free internet? The La Quinta has free internet and so does the place in East Lansing Nicole and I stayed at when we visited Michigan last Christmas. However this hotel and the hotel we stayed at in Boston both have daily rates for internet access. And in case you are wondering this $9.99 internet is dog slow.

Anyway I need to be up in about 6 hours and I need to organize my bag to lighten my load tomorrow.

– Jeremy