I’ve just registered at the Microsoft TechEd EMEA 2009 Berlin venue and I’m typing this while online on the event commnet.  I’ll be staffing the MS Springboard stand in the afternoons all week unless there’s a schedule change.  In the mornings I hope to attend as many sessions as possible.  Like last year, I’ll be blogging while listening.  And like last year, if you want, you can follow my postings on this link.

There’s some stuff open.  The hands-on-labs appear to be open as does the exam centre where you can do an exam at 25% off.  There an abundance of coffee and coke as usual.  I must remember to get some coke for the hotel room.  Luckily I remembered to bring my European power converters – unlike last year when Nathan Winters bailed me out.  I even brought a 4-way power strip to keep the laptops running and the phones charged.

I accidentally met up with a bunch of the MS Ireland folks in Dublin airport.  It turns out there aren’t too many flights from Dublin to Berlin.  We split a taxi from the airport which kept the costs down.  There hotels are some of the official ones.  They’re 4KM’s from the venue in the centre of the city.  I was cheap.  I went off the official listings and got a place about 15 minutes walk from the venue.  For 6 nights it’ll cost me 1/3 of the official hotels.  I am paying for it myself so I want to stay economic.  It turns out to be not a bad place.  It’s clean and close to here.  It’s cheap and has wifi.  I’m here to work and learn instead of partying so it suits me.

I’ve a meeting in 45 minutes where I’m to be briefed on working at a MS stand at a conference.  I guess I just need to be my usual outspoken self and to hell with whoever is in earshot ;-)  I must save my line about successful map making and successful war making!!!  Is that Basil Faulty screaming?

Anywho, I’m gonna see what’s in the fridges.  I’ll also be tweeting a bit on twitter if you want to keep up.