I'm sitting in the 1st Windows Azure presentation.  I still haven't had an "aha" moment.  The speaker (Wade Wegner) is a bit dry.  Doesn't sound real excited about the technology.  It seems like he's just reading a script.  I dont' feel like he's giving us something that we can get enthusiatic about.  On the flipside, he's a young guy and has gotten up in front of 200+ people.  That's not usually an easy task.  I'm going to want the slide deck so that I can go back through the presentation.  There seems to be a lot of info there.

Rob Jacobs did the keynote.  He did a nice job.  Nothing jaw-dropping or earth-shattering but he's certianly enthusiastic.  He talked a lot about Azure.  His main point was that we are already very comfortable about leveraging web hosting providers to host our web sites instead of having all our own hardware.  The idea is that eventually we will become comfortable leveraging massive server resources in the cloud.  My main interest will be if I can leverage the processing power to accomplish my tasks quicker than running on my own hardware.

I'm going down to the MSDN Developer Conference in Chicago on January 13th, 2009.  For those of us who didn't have the opportunity to go to Los Angeles to PDC '08, this is a great way to geek out in the Midwest.

Find out all the great info from there site : MSDN Developer Conference

Hope to see you there...

I just got my FreeScale Tahoe II dev board with the .NET Microframework already loaded.  It's a great dev board !!!  It's got a full color touchscreen panel, ethernet, USB, and access to all the GPIO pins.

 I'm going to make this into my first RobotDotNet bot.