What do you get when Pat Helland is on vocals, Don Box is on guitar and David Chappell is on piano?
You get a hilarious song direct from TechEd Europe.
Pat sings his version of Don McClean's American Pie.
The lyrics were written by Pat in response to Nicholas Carr’s Harvard Business Review paper “IT Doesn’t Matter” in which Mr. Carr proposes that businesses reconsider their IT investments. Pat says this is not the vision he sees for the future, but rather what is implied by reducing the investment in IT as proposed by Mr. Carr. This is a “speculative retrospective” in which we examine what happened “The Day That IT Died”.
For some of Pat’s technical work, please see www.pathelland.com
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The TechEd Europe 2004 is over!
6.000 delegates plus 1.800 sponsors/exhibitors/day passes/comps/etc from 62(!) countries attended this year's TechEd which returned to Amsterdam, Netherlands, after some years of Barcelona, Spain.
Kickoff at the Keynote
A lot of drumming, a trip into virtual worlds and a demo of how accessible software works...
Conference bags - a chapter on its own
To be appropriate colored in the Netherlands we got beautiful orange conference bags *g*.
Houston we have a problem
No answer survived thanks to the large ATE (Ask-The-Experts) area.
Say Hello to your friends at home
With the VoIP ("Voice over IP") phones and free international phone calls (limited to 5 minutes) probably noone could say you didn't call to say hello afterwards. Really fascinating to see how this technology works and how fast phone calls with VoIP can be.
Feed the masses
Have you ever had lunch with 6.000 colleagues?
More than just listening
No, at TechEd you will not just get the possibility to listen to a few hundred sessions of international known top-speakers... no... you can get active in one of the computer labs or join a Hands-On-Lab to really dig into technology you're interested in (or have to deal with).
Codezone everywhere
Are you not a member of Codezone? Shame on you! At least this was the overall message since CodeZone was present everywhere... even the TechEd Party was presented by - you guess right - CodeZone.
German Codezone stuff & experts: Front (left to right): Thomas Fickert (Microsoft), Michael Willers (newtelligence) Back: Jörg Freiberger (newtelligence), Damir Tomicic (Axinom)
Meeting up friends
And since it's not all about learning and TechEd is excellent for meeting up with friends or finding new ones.
Moritz Neumann (Microsoft), Michael Willers, Jörg Freiberger (both newtelligence)
One man, one blog
Andreas Heil (Microsoft Student Consultant at the University of Karlsruhe) kept blogging cool and interesting stuff from the conference in his blog at www.aheil.de. A must-read!
Every last but one conference day
... it is time for the official TechEd Party! This year's theme was (obviously): Soccer!
Soccer euphoria
And everyone's interest applied for the game: Greece won the EURO 2004 semi-finals against the Czech (1-0)!
The Big Picture
Finally a TechEd All-in-one Impression:
Final Words
For more impressions on TechEd make sure to visit TechEdBloggers.net (especially the photo section)!
See you hopefully at TechEd 2005 from 5-8 July 2005 in Amsterdam!
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