Well, technically, it began yesterday since I flew out on Saturday. I've already managed to lose (and find) my credit card, get ripped off for wireless Internet access at the hotel, eat way too much, and lose a lot of sleep because of the time change. I woke up at 4am this morning (local) because, of course, my body is used to waking up at 6 at home. And that was after an apparently all night party going on at the hotel that kept me up late. It makes me feel for the rather large European contingent here at the conference. On the other hand, the free Starbucks coffee is helping!

Enough about my travails already. I'd love to talk about the Conference, but I can't...mostly because it hasn't started yet. I'm waiting for the all day Pre-Conference session I've chosen (Creating Rich Internet Applications with Silverlight) to start. The only thing I can actually comment so far is breakfast, which was surprisingly good. Oh, and, of course, I've already scored my first T-shirt which everyone gets as part of conference participation, but nonetheless, I'm now one up in the Grand Championship T-Shirt Scrounging Contest on my co-workers.

Stay tuned...