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Madsen - .Net Powered by Caffeine : MS Tech-Ed AUS</title><link>http://msmvps.com/blogs/brianmadsen/archive/tags/MS+Tech-Ed+AUS/default.aspx</link><description>Tags: MS Tech-Ed AUS</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2008.5 SP2 (Build: 40407.4157)</generator><item><title>Send Sara Ford to Tech-Ed Australia, vote</title><link>http://msmvps.com/blogs/brianmadsen/archive/2009/07/29/send-sara-ford-to-tech-ed-australia-vote.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 23:18:01 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d67277c4-116b-43f1-b688-e9ef184ea916:1710629</guid><dc:creator>Brian Madsen</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://msmvps.com/blogs/brianmadsen/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=1710629</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://msmvps.com/blogs/brianmadsen/commentapi.aspx?PostID=1710629</wfw:comment><comments>http://msmvps.com/blogs/brianmadsen/archive/2009/07/29/send-sara-ford-to-tech-ed-australia-vote.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;An excellent opportunity has come up to get Sara Ford shipped down under to present at Microsoft Tech-Ed Australia!&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Sara put a petition video together which you can &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OifLezNr6u8" target="_blank"&gt;watch here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Afterwards head on over to the &lt;a href="http://twtpoll.com/iuz95p" target="_blank"&gt;twtpoll and put your vote to good use&lt;/a&gt; by voting “Yes, absolutely”!&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Read more about her endeavours to go down south on &lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/saraford/archive/2009/07/27/please-sign-the-official-bring-sara-ford-to-teched-australia-petition.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;Sara’s blog here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Microsoft Tech-Ed Australia is promising to be an absolutely awesome event this year (yes, i’m going too!!!! w00t).&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;For a bit of behind-the-scenes look at what goes on in the lead-up to Tech-Ed, read the &lt;a href="http://www.techedbackstage.com" target="_blank"&gt;backstage ramblings of all the geeks&lt;/a&gt; that’s taking good care of us.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;It’s also just been announced that it’s 90% sold out! so unless you want to miss out i’d be quick about registering!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://msmvps.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1710629" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://msmvps.com/blogs/brianmadsen/archive/tags/Sexy+developers/default.aspx">Sexy developers</category><category domain="http://msmvps.com/blogs/brianmadsen/archive/tags/MS+Events/default.aspx">MS Events</category><category domain="http://msmvps.com/blogs/brianmadsen/archive/tags/Visual+Studio+2008/default.aspx">Visual Studio 2008</category><category domain="http://msmvps.com/blogs/brianmadsen/archive/tags/Cool+Guys/default.aspx">Cool Guys</category><category domain="http://msmvps.com/blogs/brianmadsen/archive/tags/Geeky+News/default.aspx">Geeky News</category><category domain="http://msmvps.com/blogs/brianmadsen/archive/tags/MS+Tech-Ed+AUS/default.aspx">MS Tech-Ed AUS</category></item><item><title>AUS Tech-Ed Attendees gets to keep HP Mini Notebook</title><link>http://msmvps.com/blogs/brianmadsen/archive/2009/06/30/aus-tech-ed-attendees-gets-to-keep-hp-mini-notebook.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 04:22:32 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d67277c4-116b-43f1-b688-e9ef184ea916:1697257</guid><dc:creator>Brian Madsen</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://msmvps.com/blogs/brianmadsen/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=1697257</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://msmvps.com/blogs/brianmadsen/commentapi.aspx?PostID=1697257</wfw:comment><comments>http://msmvps.com/blogs/brianmadsen/archive/2009/06/30/aus-tech-ed-attendees-gets-to-keep-hp-mini-notebook.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;Now, as if it wasn’t enough that you’d be attending Tech-Ed, for those that’s paying to go (eg. no freebie ticket holders, MSFT staff etc etc) they now get to collect a HP Mini 2140 notebook upon arrival.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;How cool is that???&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;read more here: &lt;a title="http://www.msteched.com/australia/Public/windows-7-experience.aspx" href="http://www.msteched.com/australia/Public/windows-7-experience.aspx"&gt;http://www.msteched.com/australia/Public/windows-7-experience.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://msmvps.com/cfs-file.ashx/__key/CommunityServer.Blogs.Components.WeblogFiles/brianmadsen.metablogapi/1581.hp_5F00_mini_5F00_notebook_5F00_win7_5F00_32A9D452.png"&gt;&lt;img style="border-bottom:0px;border-left:0px;margin:0px 35px 0px 0px;display:inline;border-top:0px;border-right:0px;" title="hp_mini_notebook_win7" border="0" alt="hp_mini_notebook_win7" align="left" src="http://msmvps.com/cfs-file.ashx/__key/CommunityServer.Blogs.Components.WeblogFiles/brianmadsen.metablogapi/8446.hp_5F00_mini_5F00_notebook_5F00_win7_5F00_thumb_5F00_72831EFD.png" width="240" height="190" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h3&gt;The HP Mini 2140 Notebook PC&lt;/h3&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Lightweight, cool and handy – the HP Mini 2140 Notebook PC, weighing in at under 1.2kg, has the power to allow you to keep doing business no matter where you are. It features an Intel Atom N270 processor, 160GB of storage, 10.1-inch LED display with 16:9 aspect ratio, and a 92% of full-size QWERTY keyboard with DuraKeys. And of course, they’re fully Wi-Fi and Bluetooth compatible , so staying connected is easy. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://msmvps.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1697257" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://msmvps.com/blogs/brianmadsen/archive/tags/MS+Events/default.aspx">MS Events</category><category domain="http://msmvps.com/blogs/brianmadsen/archive/tags/MS+Tech-Ed+AUS/default.aspx">MS Tech-Ed AUS</category></item></channel></rss>