{"id":20403,"date":"2008-10-29T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2008-10-29T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2008\/10\/29\/pdc-2008-notes-how-to-get-to-room-406a-and-other-notes\/"},"modified":"2008-10-29T10:00:01","modified_gmt":"2008-10-29T10:00:01","slug":"pdc-2008-notes-how-to-get-to-room-406a-and-other-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20081029-01\/?p=20403","title":{"rendered":"PDC 2008 notes: How to get to room 406A, and other notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Today is the day of <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2008\/09\/25\/8965130.aspx\"> my talk<\/a>. I&#8217;m always a bit nervous before these things, because I&#8217;m never sure if what I&#8217;m going to present matches up with what people are expecting. Most people who come to my PDC talk don&#8217;t know who I am, so they aren&#8217;t expecting me to toss out a few catch phrases, use my psychic powers, and tell stories about how a bug in a 16-bit scanner driver written in 1993 is the reason why TCP\/IP is so complicated. (That last part was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2006\/12\/04\/yule_blogs\/#The_Old_New_Thing\"> a parody<\/a>.) <\/p>\n<p> Today&#8217;s notes: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They certainly don&#8217;t make navigating around the Los Angeles     Convention Center easy.     My talk is in room 406A.     Since the room number is in the 400&#8217;s,     it is naturally on the <i>third<\/i> floor.     And to get to the third floor,     you get into the elevator and push&nbsp;<i>2<\/i>. <\/li>\n<li>Someday, they will remember to put a clock in the room     where the speaker can see it.     That way, you have a clue how you&#8217;re doing on time.     You might think that when I glance at my laptop,     I&#8217;m consulting some speaker notes.     Nope, I&#8217;m just checking the time. <\/li>\n<li>A relatively quiet place to work is in the valley     outside meeting room 151.     The operative word here is <i>relatively<\/i>.     It&#8217;s still noisy, but the carpeting muffles the noise better     than the big open spaces which are more echoey. <\/li>\n<li>The meals at the PDC are free.     The snacks are free.     The milk, juice, soda, water, and coffee are free.     There is only one thing that isn&#8217;t free,     and that&#8217;s the coffee at the Starbuck&#8217;s stand     near the main room.     And there&#8217;s always a line.     Leave it to the geeks to find the one thing that     they have to pay for and line up for it. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the day of my talk. I&#8217;m always a bit nervous before these things, because I&#8217;m never sure if what I&#8217;m going to present matches up with what people are expecting. Most people who come to my PDC talk don&#8217;t know who I am, so they aren&#8217;t expecting me to toss out a few [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-20403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Today is the day of my talk. I&#8217;m always a bit nervous before these things, because I&#8217;m never sure if what I&#8217;m going to present matches up with what people are expecting. Most people who come to my PDC talk don&#8217;t know who I am, so they aren&#8217;t expecting me to toss out a few [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}