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MS TechEd Wrap-Up

5/21/2011

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Now that I've had a chance to recover from travel, show off new swag, and catch up on the latest Doomsday news that unfortunately needlessly spams our Internet, I shall give a bit of a commentary on my past week in Atlanta, GA.  It has to be brief as the time where I go to the In-N-Out Burger that just opened in Frisco is fast-arriving (heck yeah!). 

I really liked the TechEd Conference.  It was a lot of fun.  A few of my initial impressions were a bit wrong. For instance, due to the three buildings it spanned throughout, it was often more of a track meet than a conference - but it was a very educational track meet.  I did not go to as many seminars as I had originally wanted to, but feel that I gained more from talking with some of the attendees and fellow staff members anyway.  I went to see the Keynote speaker who spoke for nearly two hours about the Cloud, and a couple of the security-related ones such as the Wireshark course, WiFi, and "Defense Against the Dark Arts" courses.  I found most of these informative, but I feel that I should have gauged the courses better to gain more, but that's for next year.  I learned a lot not only about the security of my technical network, but of my personal network.  By that, I mean to say, how to network with people.  I made new friends, found out about different types of businesses (I never would have actually thought that a third party business would make another's application run more efficiently.  Isn't this what the programmers themselves were supposed to do?).  I also learned a lot about techniques in my own job search.  I learned that I was smarter than I thought I was.  Out of it, I got a plan for at least the next five years of my life, which is not something many other college graduates can say they have.  This is priceless!  

I certainly will not leave this blog alone any time soon (though am considering a host change).    There will, however, be a few weeks where updates will be scarce as I finish my last class for my Bachelor's Degree (*happy dance and hallelujah chorus ensues*).  In the next couple of days, I hope to have some pictures up.

Meanwhile, cheers! 
Angel Fox

P.S: Just in case Pastor Crackpot is right and the Rapture really does happen
tonight: So long, and thanks for all the fish!
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