I know I know... I've changed it... Now calm down and listen.

I've been actively participating in technical sessions throughout the week and had very less time to sleep. My jet lag only added to the problem.
At last all the sessions are over and I'm all set to leave to Florida from Seattle. Everything seemed working out as planned except one thing... oops... except one person :P

My flight from Seattle to Denver was at 6 in the morning. So, I went to bed by 9.30 pm after a yummy dinner at Chipotle.
Before going to bed, I was doing everything right. Called up the reception to book a cab at 4 in the morning, set up an alarm at 3 to freshen up and pack my stuff and push off to a hectic week ahead.

But, its a huge but(t) here. I was so tired that I did not even hear the alarm sound and overslept. All of a sudden I woke up at 5.00 only to realize that everything is freakin shattered. I just dumped everything in my baggage, slipped into my jeans, ate some toothpaste, checked out of the hotel and took a premium hotel cab. Everything in the span of 10 minutes.

The cab driver drove super fast and dropped me at the airport by 5.25. I rushed to the first class check-in and provided my economy itinerary. The lady smiled and took a look at my printout and told that there is no way I can take that flight... and the max she can do is put me on to a waiting list to the next flight at 8.

I've a connecting flight from Denver to Tampa and if I can get into that flight, I'll take the same connecting flight. Else, I need to take a next flight :(

I'm now in Seattle Airport (and the time now is 6.45). Lets see if somebody in the next flight does not turn up... Fingers crossed. Will update this as soon as I reach my hotel room.

Okay... so I somehow got onto the next flight and came to Denver and then to Tampa on Schedule.

All is well that ends well :)

As a part of the sessions at the Microsoft convention at Seattle, I had a chance to meet the C# development team. In fact, I believe this was the best thing happened to me after the CLR thing. CLR thing was obvious, they were sitting in the hall waiting for people to come there, but I had to go to the C# folks sessions to meet them. Initially this was not in my calendar, but somehow, in the end I attended theirs instead of the other planned one.

There were guys from compiler team and the studio team. After the session, when everyone is left (including my colleagues) I met these folks (Eric Lippert and Cyrus Najmadabi). I had some questions for them. After clarifying those, I was having a general discussion with them and those guys.. believe me... are amazing. I never found more passionate guys in the whole world. I thought I was passionate until I met these folks. But now I feel that I'm not even 1% passionate when compared to them.

Though they've to rush, they spent some time to me and we spoke for around 15 minutes discussing on the technology.
All my colleagues were like... why are you not leaving those guys?

They now have one more fan called Sid.

Sid went gaga... running here and there... jumping over the tables...

Well nothing of those sorts, but I was very excited to meet up those folks.
I had several questions in the technology, that no one could answer till date. I put forward some of those in front of the CLR folks and they were right on top of them. Answering them one after the other.

I spent around 20 minutes with them and in this time, we discussed several things including performance, differences, questions and something else. They were happy that they could answer those questions and I was happy that my questions were answered.

I cannot go into the details as they are too much of the implementation details and are Microsoft internal.

But, all I can say is... I'm now more knowledgeable that before. You can try your luck now by asking those questions.
If I cannot answer those, I can put forward to my new contacts who will be more than happy to answer.

One interesting thing about this plugin is the default installation path... c:\program files\ScottIsAFool\...

This one is good too, but cannot use this as often as the digg it plugin

At last... my friend Mohit realized the importance of blogging in the technical world. Being a master in SQL Server, I always thought that his knowledge is being wasted. No more it is. He finally started his blog.

If you are interested in SQL Server 2005 or future editions including Katmai, do visit his blog space. Now my next win would be to make him move that to Live Spaces, and sell him Windows Live Writer

Mohit's Blog: http://mohitnayyar.blogspot.com/

Its just the old bugs that are included. So, couple of days after the release but no single bug reported (which came to my notice) that is new from iPhone. All the bugs reported were known bugs and iPhone developers were just trying to reproduce them on their mobile device ;)

I know... I know. Its slow, it takes ages for activation, it breaks (and is not replaceable), but no bugs... hurray.

Source: http://erratasec.blogspot.com/2007/07/our-first-iphone-bugs.html

Apple's iPhone is released and people already started playing around with it. But these folks at Systm thought otherwise, they just bought an iPhone and for the human race, they took out every single screw out of it and dismantled it to the core.

This video (~30 min) shows you the internals of iPhone + the audience reaction. and yes Leah Culver is hot ;)

Source: http://revision3.com/systm/cracked

చాలా రోజులనుండి నా కార్యాచరణ పట్టీలో వున్న ఈ అచ్ఛ తెలుగు బ్లాగ్ ఇన్నాళకు నెరవేరుతున్నది.

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Courtesy: http://lekhini.org/