>Although Eric is already gone, there is more action in Phoenix!
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>Today was the first "real" day of the Windows/Exchange, SQL Server and XML conferences (again: cross-over is encouraged...). (Yesterday there was a keynote and some pre-conference sessions, as well as a party).
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>I liked the keynote yesterday. It was very entertaining, yet informative (well, more on the entertaining side, but still I learned some stuff...).
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>I personally got a lot out of this one (I actually went to some Windows sessions to learn more about Active Directory and Exchange) so far.
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>While I wasn't too impressed about the VB speakers (they weren't bad and had good content, but they weren't truely outstanding speakers...), this has somewhat changed now. As a DevCon speaker myself, I have to say that some of the Windows speakers kick our butts! (To our defense: Some of those guys do nothing but speak...).
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>Oh, well, anyway: I need to get some work done tonight. Luckily, this is the first day without any evening activities (well, there was an XML keynote...).
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>Regards,
>Markus

Thanks for the update, Markus.

An interesting thing I've found about good speakers...

Some of your best speakers and teachers aren't necessarily the best at what they teach or speak about. Moreover they are good communicators, which is far more important to their audience than their level of expertise (although that helps). I've known people who are geniuses in their field but they couldn't teach me a damn thing because they had lousy communication skills.

-JT