Well I’m here on the final day of the convention. I’ve been playing with the various labs in the hands-on lab and also picked up some goodies. I’m still having some issues installing the PDC build of Vista on my laptop. Hopefully will have that up and running soon. I’ve also [...]

As you all know by now that the build of Vista which we got at the PDC does not come with the sidebar by default, however, I’ve confirmed with AlphaAlien that it IS possible to activate the sidebar via a registry hack. I’ll most more later when more details can be obtained about this [...]

I unfortunately can’t attend Day 2 -3. I’m still doing a write-up of yesterday and also trying to get vista on my laptop. I’ll keep you all posted.
Oh, and I wanted to thank Microsoft’s Michael Rys for dropping by here and making the clarification on the SQL Server 2005 comment I posted yesterday!

Hey! I’ll be posting random thoughts and comments here in the blog and a full report on events/information on the PDC page which you can view either under “pages” on the right hand side or on my PDC coverage page on HWG.
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Since the last update I’ve attended a various sessions from developing custom UI [...]

Today I mingled with a few people attended a session, played FarCry again, and then hung out with Paul Thurrot, AlphaAlien, blackComb, and Rafael.

A group of individuals who shall remain nameless have discovered the 5219 bulid of Windows Vista on the network @ PDC05. This build is newer and DIFFERENT from the build which will be handed out to the masses post-keynote tomorrow morning.
Don’t bother asking for it. This group has said it WILL NOT leak.

PDC ‘05 Coverage
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PDC Conference Day 1 (Tuesday, September 13, 2005)
After getting up at 5am on Tuesday and leaving my house at 6am I made my way from Irvine to Los Angeles and arrived in Los Angeles at 7 due to really bad traffic on the I-5. After arriving I immediately made my way to [...]

We attended a Windows Internals session and took some photos and as mentioned above, we tried to get the photos uploaded however my PDA didn’t have the browse field on anything we tried. After that we had lunch then went around the Vista Beta1 machines and played around with them and then went up to [...]

I’m attending Microsoft’s PDC this year @ the LA Convention Center. Check out my Flickr Image Gallery for pictures I’ll be taking while there.

“The Capitalists will compete with themselves to sell us the rope with which we will hang them all.” - Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Lenin was a very smart, very shrewd man. With that one sentence, he correctly identified the greatest weakness of a capitalist society - the fact that people will do business with the devil [...]