So every year my company has the big meeting, where all of the employees from all over the world come together for 3 - 4 days of learning, fun, and general silliness at times. This year, kick-off, as we call it, is happening right near the beautiful Dullas Airport...yeah, let me tell ya, lots to see here.
It is a good time so far though. Today we had our big group meeting where everyone in the company piles into one room and we talk about the previous year, both the good and the bad, and then we shift focus to the coming year and set the expectations and goals for the year. It's a lot of info to absorb in 8 hours, and frankly my head is still swimming, but I know my roll fairly well in the company, so I feel pretty good.
This evening we got to eat at this restaurant called Red, Hot, and Blue. It was a pretty good BBQ joint (still nothing like Belmot BBQ, but pretty good.) They had pulled chicken, pulled pork, and ribs...so really you just couldn't go wrong.
It was very nice and then a fair number of us came back to the hotel for a few drinks, and here I am back in my room getting ready for bed.
In other, more geek-like, news, the public Beta of windows 7 was released last Friday (it was available to those with MSDN subscriptions on Thursday though.) So I got my hands on both the 64 and 32 bit versions. So far I've only had time to install the 32 bit version on a Virtual Machine, but so far, it really does look just like Vista, with a few different colors, and the UAC is designed differently (thank goodness) but otherwise, it feels about the same.
My plan, once I get back from DC, is to start running some tests to see how Windows 7 handles some of the programs that we know work really well on Vista (ok, so really I'm going to install my companies software, CFdesign, and see how it does.) It should be really interesting to see if Microsoft really has changed anything in the back-end. I'm sure I'll end up posting results here and letting you all know.
Ok, it's now past mid-night so it's time for bed. More soon.
~C
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