Thursday, December 08, 2005 9:58 PM
Apparantly ComputerWorld.com has selected my recent blog entry about Gartner's BlackBerry recommendation for one of their IT Blog Watch articles (check the article out here). The compiler of the blog posts made the comment “What about Palm Treos”. The answer, of course, is: Palm Treos will now support Windows Mobile, which in turn will support .NET and the compact framework. I don't think the palm platform is powerful enough to handle the types of applications that the CF and .NET can provide. Much thanks to ComputerWorld.com for selecting my blog entry!
We had the Winnipeg launch event today. I thought the content was good, but having worked with ASP.NET 2.0 and SQL Server 2005 in some capacity over the last few months, it was more of a review (although there were still new things I picked up from it). You could also tell that the organization team was at the last city of the tour...everyone seemed a little tired. John, Dave, Joel, and the rest of the presenters did a fantastic job though and still presented with alot of energy (kudos to Joel who was feeling under the weather)...especially with a Winnipeg crowd that was less than involved (quote of the day: after showing off a brand new feature that was pretty kewl “You all can clap if you want.”...crickets....”...or not.”).
Tonight was the Aerosmith/Lenny Kravitz concert. Lenny was amazing, and I wish his set had been longer actually. He played a good medley of his bigger hits, although my favorite “Can't get you off of my mind” wasn't to be. Then we waited for 45 minutes, and then Aerosmith came out. They had a huge screen which would act as a jumbo-tron displaying camera feeds from mobile camera guys...very kewl. It was a weird set though. I did not know that Aerosmith did Helter Skelter originally (only knew the Motley Crue version), which is what they opened with. Then it was some well known/not well known songs. During their encore, they started with a moment of silence for John Lennon (25th anniversary of his passing) and then played a Beatles song. Then it was a few more songs, and GOODNIGHT! That's it?! Here's what they didn't play: Rag Doll, Dude Looks Like a Lady, Angel, Permanent Vacation, Crazy, Don't Stop, Janie's Got a Gun, Love in an Elevator...I mean, their song list was good...but it was just missed what I would consider REQUIRED Aerosmith. But we saw them a year and a bit ago, and they played all of those and more, so maybe Steve was sick tonight, maybe they wanted to try something different, who knows. It was still a good concert.
Off to bed.
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