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Survived an entire day... wow, and that's really only half a day's worth of sessions because of the keynote.

Attended a good session right after lunch (coke and cookies) about connecting up to data with SL2. It was a tad intense just watching, lots of ws and hand waving... I'll get more out of it when I see it offline and have the code.

Funny about the lunch though... since I went straight to the end of the 4th floor and logged in, I got a great connection right up until everyone got out of lunch then BAM... the connectivity sucked ... so that was a plan... inadvertent though it was.

I saw Adam Kinney and he was talking to Frank Lavigne and Pete Brown (Frank's World and Irritated Vowel, respectively, and respectuflly)... so was REALLY great to meet them. Also found myself in the row behind Andy Beaulieu ... so it's always great to put a face and person with the names we all see and email we exchange!

Since the 1st SL session was so packed, I didn't hang around in the short hallway to get into Joe Stegman and Mike Harsh's tag-team talk. I went around to the main hallway and just walked into the end of the session in progress.

Unfortunately this had an unexpected backfire because apparently people coming in behind me got a free copy of an O'Reilly book "Essential Silverlight 2 ... darn! ...and of course they ran out...

But... the two sessions were very nice... Joe and Mike showed some very nice SL2 control goodness and Mike has all the code and slides on his site: http://blogs.msdn.com/mharsh/default.aspx ... definitely worth your time!

They both referred to sessions tomorrow and Friday as well, so my map-o-sessions is getting filled in.

Plus I don't want to miss Andy & Bill Reiss doing their demo tomorrow night!

I'm skipping the nightclub... if you actually know me, that's probably not a shock :) ... I'm thinking Arby's and probably crashing out at the no-tell-motel...

Seems silly to even b log about it, since not only could you watch it streamed, but it's undoubtedly available for d/l or watching right now, but I'll highlight some things I thought were interesting to me  (like THAT's new).. :)

Not sure why I didn't think of it, but the Olympics is going to be doing Picture-in-Picture. Now that could get annoying for an app, but for a demo or tutorial... that could have very cool aspects, and dang... how hard is that??

Note to self to take a look at WebSlices in IE8, and Silverlight as WebParts.

One thing that was REALLY stressed was MS approaching the concept of controlling all your *** (devices, media, data, fill-in-the-blank) from the web... times are going to get interesting!

Scott Guthrie said all the source for the SL2 controls is available including Unit Tests under an agreement... what a way to learn how to write them!

Another note to self: See how tough the Deep Zoom stuff is to do.... it is seriously cool.

Met the guys from Vertigo this morning... great guys ... looks like they're hiring...

My first session this afternoon is Mike Harsh's 1 of 2 parts, so going to go do some IRL until then. Jesse LIberty says he's on this floor... I'll see if I can get to see him without getting thrown out of the room for not supposed to be there :)

Stay in the 'Light

-Dave