Yesterday was the UK MVP day down at Microsoft Reading, which as usual was a fantastic day. A wide variety of talks, including a short one by me on how to get into writing and publishing. One amazing session was from Microsoft Research where we were showed some of the projects they are working on - pretty darn cool, and the hope that some of it might appear in Longhorn. What's interesting for me about these days is meeting people of different ages and skills, whose specialist areas are nothing to do with mine. When you're wrapped up in your own little area you tend to forget all of the other products that Microsoft provide and the amount of effort the MVPs put in to support the community.
The evening event was great too, with the entertainment being The Roving Artist, who just completely amazed me. He'd stand beside you and within a minute or so you'd have a lifelike silhouette. Very accurate and so much detail. Fabulous. He even got my pint into mine, so it represents me well. The evening did, of course, continue until the early hours, and I retired at 3am. The last made it until 5:30 apparantly and they didn't look too bad at 9am for breakfast. I'm way to old for this and spent most of the next day recovering.
Today was office re-arrangement day, so I finally have masses of cupboard space and shelving. Much better since I can hide a lot of junk away now.
[Listening to: Pale Movie - Saint Etienne - Too Young To Die]