Namedropping

I'm not usually one for namedropping, however when I was in Vegas I met a whole bunch of folks doing really great stuff with .net: Julie Lerman, Charles Petzold, Billy Hollis, and Kathleen Dollard (who happens to have the greatest bear hug this side of the Mississippi.) These guys were totally great - it was really my first presentation outside the walls of Microsoft, and in our speaker lounge they were totally pumping me up.

There's quite a bit of work that goes into those presentations; making sure demos are just right, getting the timing down, perfecting the power point slides, and making sure you dont say "uhmmm" too much. Still working on the last one. ;-)

And Julie, yes it worked - I'm totally corrupted now.