Tech.Ed 2008 Live

In fear of being completely shamed, Wayne Small has fled Microsoft Tech.Ed 2008 without stepping up to the challenge of having a Battle of the Posse with Steve Riley.

So, what are the totals after this whole week of shenanigans? Well Wayne put the call out to the community, and the community certainly responded.
Wayne ended up with a final Posse of 91.

And Steve's posse.... well .... what can we say...



We had the pleasure of interviewing Steve after his last event, and here his thoughts about the Battle of the Posse and Tech.Ed 2008.



Well, that's all folks for Tech.Ed 2008.

I hope you've all enjoyed the live coverage of the event and it's been something different. It's certainly been good fun for me, and it's definitely something that I think I'll be doing more of going forward.

Any questions, queries, moans, groans, complaints or comments are always appreciated. Email teched@techedlive.com

Until next year - Safe Computing.

Tech.Greg

I'm really too tired to actually write anything here right now. The brain is fairly mushy after 2 days of full on Tech.Eding and all this blogging I tells ya, it takes its toll

But what can I say, tonights party was certainly something different.... Did anyone else notice the lack of sponsorship stuff or was it just me!?

Here's a few grabs from tonight. Catch you all in the morning.

Tech.Greg


Andrew the WiFi Man


Andrew talking to Tech.Greg





Rope Girl

Yesterday in a moment of spare time, I managed to have a quick chat with Daniel from GFI Software, the makers of the software that I love and use.

I took some time out this morning during the morning tea break to go down to the RFID guys and check out what they are doing with all this tracking information and find out a bit more about it.



They will be releasing some live data on CommNet some time soon, so keep an eye out for it!

Tech.Greg

Well, this is certainly a bit confusing....

I saw the opportunity and just had to get this shot. A Microsoft Employee (sorry, I 've forgotten your name) with my MacBook & iPhone!

Tech.Greg

This morning my first session was with Steve Riley and he had a little chat to us about the notion of putting the corpnet in the cloud. Not Cloud Computing, but putting the corporate network in the cloud.


I keep hearing little voices in my head ... or chirps??

So, what does this mean..... well here's how Steve explains it....



Do you follow? Oh well, maybe you had to be there to understand it.

As always another engaging session from Steve, with lots of questions, lots of answers and plenty of twisted sick American humour!


Look Nothing Up My Sleeve!

Steve will be presenting a Security Chat in Parkside Ballroom A at 3.45pm today (after Afternoon Tea) and all being well (my battery not being flat) I'll do some live blogging from in the session.

Tech.Greg

Well this morning we posted earlier about the Fridges having only Diet Coke yesterday.... but look at this morning...



It looks like the cover up has started!

...stay tuned for more as it comes to hand.

Tech.Greg

Well I've just bumped into Wayne Small making a dash for the door as he's just found out the he's got an 8.30am session, but as he was walking out, he's spotted Steve Riley and oh no, the jealousy is just shocking.



Ok, well Wayne just couldn't resist and just had to go and stir the pot and give Steve a piece of his mind..... uh oh... duck for cover!



Stay tuned tomorrow for the Battle of the Posse!

Tech.Greg

OK folks, Wayne Small has just posted to the ANZ-SMB-ITS Yahoo Group (and every other frikken list!) and is Pleading for people to join his posse.

So far, only David Nicholls has responded, so either David has no life or Wayne has sent him a Cheque.

Who Knows? Care to comment Dave?

Tech.Greg

Ok, it looks like Wayne has paid Kevin Royalty off too!

Update (The List Thus Far @ 2337hrs)...Kieran Block, David Nicholls, Matthew Stringer, Ken Higdon, Nick Lloyd, Kevin Royalty, David Phillips, David Houston, Neil Cassidy, Grahan R Seach (Twice!... Tech.Greg thinks someone has multiple personality disorder.... white jacket and padded room to isle 2!), Kerry Brown, Peter Casey, David Mackie and Tim Yates.

This takes the count to about 20 or so. Now how many of you actually have a physical presence at Tech.Ed? I thought a posse was meant to be following you like a bad smell Wayne?

According to UrbanDictionary.com ....A Posse Is...Your homies, your peeps, the gang of friends you hang out with that make you powerful.

Lord, what have I done....

Here's what some people had to say.... smacks head

"Sign me up for the posse. Wayne Small is the cultural bridge between the US and Australia, our link to Trend Micro and SBS guru extraordinaire." - Amy Babinchak

"If I join your posse Wayne, do I get to blow shit up? Either way, I’m in! - Graham Seach

Tech.Greg

Welcome to Steve Riley and his posse to Microsoft Australia. Straight off the plane from Tech.Ed New Zeland equipped with Velcro Gloved and Mint Jelly

And of course, Tech.Greg was there to ask the hard questions of Steve before anyone else! Who needs a media pass I tells ya!

Ok, Wayne Small is still waiting for someone to join his Posse!

I interviewed Wayne earlier to find out he was going with his Posse Requirement.



So the challenge has been set people, 5 people to join the posse by the end of the week. To join, email waynesmallposse@techedlive.com and we'll have a photo of the posse (be it all 1 person) at the end of the week to see how it all went.

UPDATE: Wayne in passing has now made comment that he'll have 40, yes 40 by the end of the day! So far Wayne, you have 1! Frank McCallister!

POSSE UPDATE 2143hrs: OK Wayne, you're nearly there.... Thanks to Larry Struckmeyer (USA), Linden Jackson (Agile IT Solutions), Sepp (Pappillion Group), Steven Lai (NAI Group) and Cameron McNeill (Microsoft)

POSSE UPDATE 2236hrs: Kevin Weilbacher (Florida, USA)

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I was just finishing up my SBS 2008 Beta exam at the same time as Craig from Boral who had just passed his Microsoft Windows Vista Exam.