It's the last day of the show and my apologies for not blogging.
I haven't carried my laptop around this year so much and I'm thinking I
need a smaller solution for next year since I'm anticipating more
remote writing.
This has been a strange conference for me with a lot of mixed feelings.
With the site being sold, it's been strange thinking that for the first
time in five years Andy and Brian won't be my partners as I carry on
the site we built. On the other hand it's been fun seeing so many
people I've known from years past and shaking hands with lots of new
ones.
Usually the conference is a lot of work for the three of us, from
planning the Tuesday night party, to getting ready to speak, and
meeting with the PASS board and various vendors about the coming year.
This year we had less of that since the "business" of the site isn't
something we have to worry about anymore. It still felt exhausting to
be working on the new ventures, something I'll have less time for over
the next year, and still meeting with people, but more as friends.
Maybe I'm getting older, or maybe the stress of the sale and the
changes to come have worn me down, but I was less interested in the
conference this year. I did manage to pop into some interesting
presentations and I look forward to watching more of them online over
the coming weeks. It should provide some good fodder for articles as
well and as usual, I got lots of ideas, so hope to have some
interesting articles over the next few months.
I'm also looking forward to the PASS 2007 Summit in Denver. It's where
I live, so not having to travel means a lot to me. Hopefully I'll see
many more of the same friends and meet new ones over the next year that
will come as well. We're still planning on another great party Tuesday
night, so be sure you use the source code of "SSC" when you register.
And if you can get the budget this year, it's $1000 off the price until
Dec 31. A great deal and let your company know. Even if you leave or
can't go, they'll have a fairly cheap ticket to a great SQL Server
event.
I usually set aside Tues afternoons and Friday afternoons for my Database Daily work. Scanning a couple hundred links takes some time and rather than worry about it everyday or try to figure out what's new, I devoted those two afternoons to Database Daily.
Except this week. A few others as well, but especially this week I've been busy with a few things and I realized this morning, Saturday morning, that I hadn't loaded anything for the newsletter that starts going out Sunday morning.
So around tiling my bathroom floor, I loaded content and I'm finally done. Now I just need an editorial :)