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I am heading to downtown Seattle this evening to Demo the Zune and Media Center products for the Little People of America conference. Attendees are going to be bringing their cameras with them to synch up with Media Centers and Zunes and we will be burning DVD's of their pictures at the end of the conference. I am loading my Zune up with as much as it can hold as this will be an opportunity to really show off the wireless sharing features. I will post some pics from the event tomorrow.
Cheers!
For the longest time I have heard this question....
"I heard Harold Wong was doing a series of webcasts and I really like the others by him I have seen. How kind I find other webcasts he is delivering?" (Substitute your favorite Technet Presenter if you like)
Well now you can! Check out the new Technet Webcasts site that allows you to sort by presenter, date, or title. This works for upcoming as well as on-demand webcasts. Version 2 is already in the works so if you have any suggestions, feel free to comment on this post and I will pass it on to our awesome operations team!
I have three daughters from two previous marriages. I remarried for the final time just over a year ago. Jeanne (my wife) and I were together for 5 years before we got married. During that time we discussed a lot of things future-related that dealt with our relationship. One of those things was regarding children. She has no children of her own and didn't want any. She enjoys my children and that fulfills her motherly instinct. This was discussed many times and she convinced me that she did not want to try to have kids once we were married. I believed her. I trusted her. I married her.
I was betrayed....
My youngest daughter is 8 years old. Well out of diapers. I thought the days of getting up in the middle of the night to comfort a crying child, clean up "messes", and satisfy their hunger were long over.
Or so I thought....
About a week ago my wife comes home with the twins - Hayden and Darwyn.
And here I am at 3:30am, comforting the crying kids, cleaning up "messes", and making sure they don't go hungry....they just got back to sleep so I decided to snap a couple pictures of the new arrivals and vent my parental frustrations....
The sleeping twins...
Just not comfortable enough...
Betrayed.
I am delivering a webcast today on Why to Deploy IPv6 at 9am Pacific time today...
Here are some resources that I will be referring to....
Server and Domain Isolation Site Network Access Protection (NAP) Site Introduction to IPv6 Whitepaper (updated January 2007) IPv6 technical Reference Site (this is a little older but still relevant) Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) Internet Host Survey - Record of number of hosts on the Internet every year since 1981 How Windows Vista Delivers IPv6 - An Ask the Experts session by Dale Geesey How IPv6 Works - Architecture, Routing, Transition technologies IPv6 Transition Technologies DNS Client Behavior in Vista Name of Large Numbers - Cool Wikipedia entry discussing how large numbers are named....we reference "undecillion" in the webcast....
Server and Domain Isolation Site
Network Access Protection (NAP) Site
Introduction to IPv6 Whitepaper (updated January 2007)
IPv6 technical Reference Site (this is a little older but still relevant)
Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) Internet Host Survey - Record of number of hosts on the Internet every year since 1981
How Windows Vista Delivers IPv6 - An Ask the Experts session by Dale Geesey
How IPv6 Works - Architecture, Routing, Transition technologies
IPv6 Transition Technologies
DNS Client Behavior in Vista
Name of Large Numbers - Cool Wikipedia entry discussing how large numbers are named....we reference "undecillion" in the webcast....
(subtitle - Cool and Ugh!)
I first heard about it about 3 years ago when I attended an MS sponsored event for college students at University of Southern California. I asked some of the students what cool sites they used in an attempt to go to them and try to connect with a younger audience. Facebook was by and far the most mentioned app. At the time it was not available to the public so the trail went cold.
Now, it is open to everyone and I just spent a couple hours creating my account, updating the profile, trying to locate "Friends", joining networks and (this next part was a major time suck) trying to locate interesting Groups.
Facebook looks to be interesting as a social networking application. But I have three big issues with it -
No one I personally know uses it and I lived most of my life in Dallas, Tx and all of my family and long term friends live there. But I now live in Redmond, WA. Why can't I be a part of two regional networks? and It is impossible to narrow the search criteria to easily locate groups you might be interested in joining.
No one I personally know uses it
and
I lived most of my life in Dallas, Tx and all of my family and long term friends live there. But I now live in Redmond, WA. Why can't I be a part of two regional networks?
It is impossible to narrow the search criteria to easily locate groups you might be interested in joining.
I decided to add friends using my initial networks of "Microsoft" and "Seattle, WA". Few of my immediate co-workers actually live in Seattle, so I used the Microsoft network. None of my immediate co-workers are registered.
With one exception....my boss! So as of right now I have made two friend requests - Robert Scoble (because he essentially dared the entire world to add him) and my boss.
Regions - as noted above, most of the people I know live in the Dallas area. But if i want to keep up with my friends here in the Seattle are I have to try to find a Seattle groups or groups they are a part of.
Which leads me to....
The absolutely, astoundingly, horrible filtering feature for finding groups. If there is one thing that the Yahoo!'s, Googles, and Live's of the worl have done for us, it is making things discoverable. Facebook falls flat on it's face in this area. And there really isn't any excuse for it in this day and age. I can find my interest income on my 1987 tax return faster than I can find relevant groups I am interested in on Facebook. That is probably why there are some many crap groups on Facebook - Can't find it? Make a new one!
Sorry to sound down on it. It's just that when you hear all the hype and want to take part and then run into obstacles that shouldn't even exist, it puts a big damper on things.
I am sure the people at Facebook have heard this feedback before, but if not.....well.....I send them a link to this post through their feedback mechanism.
ps.....not that I want to compete with Scoble, but I generally like to be accessible. Feel free to add me if you like....
This screencast discusses the simplified means of removing password, cookies, and history information in IE7. There is a comparison between how we did this in IE6 and how simple it is to do now in IE7.
Dynamic Security Protection - IE7 Features
This is the second in a series of Screencasts I have recently completed. This one deals with the Windows Vista Power Plans and the ease with which you can change and customize them. I can say for a fact they work too. I usually run on the High Performance plan and I can just make it through a 2.5 hour movie on the plane in that config using my Lenovo T60p on a full charge. Switching to Power Saver gives me a full 45-60 minutes more time after the movie. Sweetness.
I will be posting a few more screencasts immediately after this one. For those interested, I used TechSmith's Camtasia to capture the screen demos. Slick product.
Vista Power Management - Power Plans
A few weeks ago I received an email with the following question.....
I want to publish an internal Exchange 2k3 server through ISA 2006. The ISA server is not multi-homed. Is it possible to allow full publication of my Exchange server ( = SMTP inbound and outbound, and OWA)?
The short answer to this is - Yes, you can - but only for OWA. Not for inbound Exchange services. Two things come to mind.
First, when it comes to network security, I am a big fan of full network segmentation. I have my own OWA and Outlook Anywhere (RPC over HTTP in Exchange 2003) services placed behind and published through my multi-homed ISA 2006 server. For my particular network configuration it just makes sense to have everything behind ISA. I also designed my network so that ISA 2006 is doing "edge" firewalling. But ISA 2006 does introduce some improvements in the web proxy filter that can be used to publish web-based Exchange services and even SharePoint sites securely. It may make sense for your configuration to have a single homed ISA machine and use it to publish OWA & RPC/HTTP.
Second, the whole point behind publishing with ISA server is the security it can provide. I personally think that application publishing should ALWAYS be phrased as secure application publishing because that is what everyone really wants and it is what ISA Server does when deployed/configured properly. Placing the Exchange SMTP services behind a multi-homed ISA server allows you inspect the traffic going both directions and make use of the SMTP filter built into ISA. It also forces all of that SMTP traffic to go through ISA without providing another path (more on this below).
There is substantial difference between web-based OWA & RPC over HTTP access which should always be an authenticated connection and server to server SMTP communications which is generally unauthenticated, anonymous communications. The former requires some sort of credentials verification whether that be via forms based authentication, LDAP or some other security measure. You can talk directly to the mail server (Exchange in our case) or allow ISA to authenticate and inspect the traffic. Exchange alone doesn't do any payload inspection so ISA provides a measurable benefit when publishing Exchange web based services. ISA can even terminate SSL connections, inspect the payload, and then repackage it and send it on it's merry way via SSL if everything is ok. Another benefit ISA provides is the web-based traffic can be cached, providing a better experience for the client and reducing traffic on the network.
When it comes to anonymous SMTP connections it would seem to make more sense to just let the servers connect directly to each other (or even client to server). But again, ISA can act as the gatekeeper here and make use of its built in SMTP filter to inspect the incoming SMTP commands. The SMTP filter can check to make sure the SMTP commands are valid and accepted; and are the correct length (to protect against buffer overflow attacks). If things are not up to snuff, ISA can drop the connection to protect the Exchange server and log the information which can also be used to generate alerts to notify you of an attempted compromise. But SMTP connections cannot be cached like web based connections. We don't use Web Publishing rules instead we use Server Publishing Rules which are Firewall Policies designed for specific services.
The rule of thumb is that Firewall Policies require two network interfaces. It is possible to configure a single NIC ISA machine and bind "internal" and "external" IP addresses to it and work around physical segmentation but it also compromises the bulk of the security that ISA can provide with a true physically segmented network.
Think of it this way.....
A single NIC ISA server is comparable to a movie theater where the ISA Server is the ticket booth. The goal is to get in to see a movie. Movie goers are supposed to go to the ticket booth and purchase a ticket which grants you entry to the theater. However, it is possible with a little creativity and social engineering to bypass the ticket booth all together and get into the theater unbeknownst to the ticket booth(or so I have heard). The line between the inside and outside is a little fuzzy because you only have to pass by the ticket booth to gain entry. (I think the reason movie theaters are relatively lax in this area is because they are still going to get your $20 for the soft drink and the popcorn!)
A properly configured multi-NIC ISA server is like your house where ISA is the locked front door. The goal is to get into the house. If you are outside and you want in, you have to have a key to the house. You have to pass through the door. You don't just pass by it as you can with the movie theater ticket booth. There is a definitive inside and outside. You can't walk past the booth and duck under the rope to get in.
None of this is to suggest that a single-NIC ISA system is a wide open door. It's just that ISA was not designed to be configured as a Firewall nor as a Secure Application Publishing platform using a single NIC. Single-NIC ISA 2006 systems are great for publishing web based information. There are a number of improvements over ISA 2004 that provide a greatly enhanced level of flexibility for this very purpose. Using multiple physical interfaces for firewalling and application publishing lets ISA work the way it was designed to work and will ultimately be easier to configure and maintain as well as give you all of the security features you paid for.
Repeating to emphasize - In a multi-NIC configuration there is a physical separation of the network segments. You have to pass through the ISA machine to get from one side to the other. There is no other route. This allows ISA to authenticate (if necessary) and inspect traffic dropping the undesirable stuff, log and fire off alerts if configured. With a single NIC ISA Server, the single NIC still has to be connected to a hub/switch/router that connects to the two network segments. That other device provides another path for the traffic to move along without absolutely requiring any communication with ISA.
If you would like to read more about the security model that ISA 2006 provides and recommended configurations, I suggest the following --
ISA 2006 Firewall Core Whitepaper ISA 2006 Security Guide
ISA 2006 Firewall Core Whitepaper
ISA 2006 Security Guide
It has been a hectic few weeks (well.....year!). I have been noticeably absent from the blogosphere in recent weeks. It is end of fiscal year. A whirlwind of work and personal related travel. Vacation time. And a general feeling that I didn't have much to say that someone else wasn't already blogging about. I am on vacation again - two weeks this time - but I am not traveling anywhere, so I am catching up on some posts ideas I have had in my drafts folder for a while. There will be a flurry of activity over the next few days. An number of rants. A few raves. Throw in a smattering of stuff for good measure.
You have been warned...
I am back online after a week of ignoring my cell phone and email. I have to say, it was difficult to NOT want to check email. After so many years in the industry, giving up email for a week is not easy. I thought that going up into the mountains to a log cabin would make it easier, but it turns out that at 11,000 feet we had Dish TV in the cabins and I had two bars on my phone. You just can't get away anymore....
I was already behind on email and testing before I went on vacation so I am playing double catch up. Top that off with two more weeks of vacation starting at the end of this week (it will be a catch up on blogging, projects, email vacation) and heading up to Anchorage for a couple of days to speak to a customer and it is easy to see I won't be getting caught up quickly.
If you have sent me email, please be patient - I will get back to you. Feel free to send me a reminder if necessary....
My team is working on a rather extensive project to publish screencasts on Vista features. My first run at it is on the Media Center Music Library features to show how easy it is to organize and find your tunes in Media Center. The screencasts are designed to be short (5-10 mins max) and portable (.wmv format only for now).
I would enjoy your feedback on the screencasts!
I know I am not the first person to post about Microsoft Surface, but I am not going to not post about it just because of that.
This is a product that will take us closer to full interactive computing. Think Matrix + Minority Report + Real Life (sorry....for that link, go stand in front of a mirror).
I want the full experience of being able to take a digital camera and placing it on the "table" and being able to download my pictures to it. for that matter, let me place a CD or DVD on it and have the Table rip the content to a centralized storage area (Home Server). Let it analyze ANYTHING I place on the surface and give me options for how I deal with it....pictures, music, data (think about dropping a business card on the surface and having the information be added to Outlook contacts). Just don't go so far as to analyze my DNA....yet.
Some of these things are demo'd at the site....plus a bunch more. But don't let the demo's keep you from fantasizing about what you would like to see this be able to do.
I know about as much as what the general public does so far, but I am not going to let that stop me from suggesting what I would like to see it be able to do.
What do want it to do?
I have had several requests to post the video of the First IT Pro Ever that I have shown at a few of my events. Well there ya go.....
For the record - I didn't create it. I found it while cruising around the web. I don't recall what site I grabbed it from but a query to your favorite search engine for "IT_Pro.wmv" will find it.
It has been brought to my attention that comments are not working on my blog....I will get some emails sent to see if this can get resolved. I will update this post when it is good to go.
***UPDATED***
Comments are now working. It seems my Technorati search box interferes with the ASP.Net coding used in the blogging software. I have temporarily removed the search box till I locate a workaround. Comment away!
There is some timely information posted on a blog managed by some of my Canadian counterparts regarding certification I wanted to let you know about....
Certification Related Webcasts The Value of Certification Do Managers Care About Certification? Does Certification Really Matter Anymore?
Certification Related Webcasts
The Value of Certification
Do Managers Care About Certification?
Does Certification Really Matter Anymore?
Windows Server 2008. It finally has a name. Giving our upcoming server release a real name means we can all start planning for the next round of MCSE certification tests. There isn't anything on the public Training and Certification site yet except for a mention that if you get Windows 2003 MCSE certified by June 30th, 2007 you can get a 40% savings voucher toward MCSE 2008 testing.
If you are already certified and you have access to the MCP Member site there is a preview of the new certification there. There are also a few Webcasts coming up in June on the new Windows 2008 certifications if you are interested.
Introducing the Windows Server "Longhorn" Certification Roadmap (Session 1)
Introducing the Windows Server "Longhorn" Certification Roadmap (Session 2)
At this point I want to go on a bender about standardized testing (particularly the testing my daughters have to go through every year in the US public school system) but I will leave that for some other time. I am more interested in your thoughts right now.
I am not a big fan of putting a bunch of letters after my name on my business cards or email signatures. So even when I get my Windows 2008 cert, you won't see any obvious indication of it. I know some people will, but I personally ignore all that stuff. In fact, the more letters I see the less I care, but that is just me. But I would like to know your thoughts on the importance of me being certified.
How important is it to you that *I* be certified on the current products?
I am now catching up on email and blogs topics. Look for a flurry of activity over the next few days as I am off the road now for a few days.
My wife and i were in Chicago for the weekend (had never been there) and went on the Frank Lloyd Wright tour of homes. It is a once annual tour of homes in the Chicago area that Frank Lloyd Wright either designed or otherwise influenced. We were were a little disappointed that only 50% of the homes on the tour were Wright homes. The other 50% he had no hand in at all. They were designed by other architects and not necessarily even influenced by Wright. But they are fantastic homes none-the-less. We haven't pulled the pictures off the camera yet but I will post a few once we do.
I just read yet another article on how the RIAA sent out letters to university students threatening to sue those who have downloaded and shared music without paying for it unless they pay a settlement. I have seen dozens of similar articles over the past couple of years. According to this most recent article, a student was asked to settle for $3000 - about $7.87 a song - or get sued.
When will this kind of bullying will stop? My guess, not any time soon.
The music industry is hemorrhaging money like blood in an overly gruesome episode of Grey's Anatomy due to piracy. It's their own fault too. I can understand why they want to re-coup some of those losses but I don't believe bullying college students who have little to no money is the way to do it. They need to keep in mind that the students they are targeting today are the lawyers and policy makers of tomorrow. Pissing them off is going to lead to a backlash down the road.
$7.87 a song is insanity. I personally think $1.00 a song is robbery but that is just me. But almost $8 bucks? I don't want to upset the recording artists who burn the midnight oil recording music they think people want to hear, but what single song is worth that much to anyone? I suppose an artist who spends a year (or even 3 years) creating music might feel like the music is worth that much. To those artists I say go talk to Jack White of the The White Stripes and learn how to make record a kick ass album in two weeks. The artists aren't the ones who are profiting from the RIAA's legal onslaught anyway. Recording artists receive only a small percentage of the overall money received from album sales.
Yeah....I said "album". Twice. I am old.
Most of the money goes into the coffers of the record labels themselves. They can argue that they use the money to promote artists and sponsor tours and blah, blah, blah but since when should the money given to the artists who create the content be only a fraction of what it costs for the consumer to purchase it? Since forever actually and it really needs to change.
The world has moved on. The digital age is now. The record industry has been as slow as a snail climbing Mount Everest in adopting digital distribution methods. It should have been the record companies that created the Napster's, BitTorrent's and Kazaa's of the world. But since they didn't have the foresight to see how quickly the world was changing and other people did, those other people did the hard work for them. Brick and mortar music stores are closing in droves. Getting music online is THE way to disseminate music (and increasingly just about all visual and audio based content).
The industry has also demanded that companies like Microsoft, Apple and others implement digital rights management (DRM) systems which, on the surface sound like an effective way of combating piracy but only muddy the waters for consumers. Different companies implement different DRM methods and the music gets locked to specific devices or platforms and reduces portability and consumer choice. You can argue that companies should work better together to come up with a global standard but that is a whole other problem to tackle. Why are the latter forced to fix a problem created by the former?
The music industry (and ALL industries where intellectual property can be easily disseminated online) needs to understand WHY students (and others) pirate media.
1) Cost - The cost to purchase a CD is crazy. $15-20 bucks for 45-60 minutes of music? Come on! Figure out the online model and get the cost down to a point where poor college students can afford it. They are your target market most of the time anyway.
2) It's Easy - Why get in a car, drive to a mall, fight to find a parking spot, fight the throngs of people, just to MAYBE find what you want when you can DEFINITELY find everything you want in seconds online? I can download a song I want faster than it takes to pump the $10 in gas it will cost me to get to an from the store.
3) DRM sucks - IPods are cool. Zunes rock. But they don't share music with each other because of formats and DRM. For that matter, it should be easy to move that music from my portable player to my PC to my Media Center to my car just like I can with a CD. Stop making me purchase the same song 4 times in 4 different formats so I can listen to it in my car, my home stereo, my portable music player, and my PC's.
4) The social aspect - When I hear music I like, I ask about it. I am a consumer. Consumers are the best advertising there is for music. We blast it in our cars, we play it at parties. We ask then they go try to find it or we send links to each other. We want to listen to what we hear other people playing and we want to share it with others with similar tastes.
But.....I don't want to just bitch and moan about this. I want to offer up a solution. And here it is.....in two short paragraphs.
The recording industry needs to spend some of their own money on R&D to develop a standardized electronic distribution methodology instead of relying on third parties to manage their mess. Either develop their own system or work with the major players in the peer-to-peer world to refine and license existing technologies. Get with the digital age! This will address the cost factor and since it is already easy, that is in the bag as well.
While I think DRM is the worst thing ever for music and movies, I might support it if it was standardized and let me move my music between different devices easily without having to purchase multiple licenses/copies. It should also be tied into the social aspect of this. Cut me in on the action. Develop a DRM scheme that allows me to send a digital copy to someone else, and automatically deducts a (small) payment from the receiver and deposits a small chunk of that in my account, a big chunk in the account of the content creator, and some percentage into the account of the recording industry. That alone would probably solve the problem.
I am on the road today (like that is a big surprise....) in Redmond, OR at the Deschutes County Fairgrounds for the local Technology Showcase. Lots of local vendors and some big players showing off some cool technology. I will post more about that later.....
To get here though, I had to get on a plane which means I had to pass through security. I carry a substantial amount of electronic equipment with me. I have two laptops, a gaggle of spare drives, mice, cell phone, network cables, blah, blah, blah.....On this trip the TSA people decided they needed to sort through my backpack and in the process dropped two of my hard drives on the floor. I knew that meant trouble but didn't know how much till I arrived on site and started booting up my machine.
One of the drives was my core system drive (which I just rebuilt last week btw) which was out of the machine because I was building yet another system up for some other demos. The other drive had a virtual machine of SBS2003 R2 Premium installed to for one of the sessions I am delivering today. Both are toast. The core drive actually booted up, promptly blue screened and then never booted again. The other drive just doesn't spin up at all.
BUT! Since I do Complete PC backups about every 2-3 days, I was able to drop in a spare drive, boot my Vista Ultimate DVD and restore my 3 day old backup in about 30 minutes. I lost a couple days worth of stuff I dropped on the desktop, but nothing that isn't easy to recreate of find again.
Vista Ultimate Rocks!
Heads up! (btw......ever wonder why in baseball, basketball, football......all the sports with balls that can fly amuck.....people yell "head's up" when a ball is heading for people?.....Usually coming in from the sky.....They obviously think that getting hit in the face with a heavy object is more desirable than getting knocked in the top of the head.....any doctor's out there? what is more likely to cause brain injury.....top of the head or face injury? My guess is top of the head since there are seams in the plates at the top of the head......too many hospital drama shows. The ego in my wants me to protect my ugly mug....)
Oh yeah....I am supposed to be telling you I will be going on vacation in June for almost the whole month.
The first week I will be on a camping trip with my brother, father and uncle - the first time ever the Avis men have gotten together (just us that is) for a trip. We are heading to some cabins in Wyoming to do some hiking, fishing, and male bonding.
Second week of June I am back, but that is followed by two more weeks of vacation when my kids come up from Texas to visit. This is big deal for a few of reasons....they have never flown before, and they have not been to our new house since we moved to Washington, they have never been to Washington, and they have never been this far from home before. Doesn't seem like a big deal on the surface, but when you frame it in the minds of an (almost) 8 and an 11 yr old it takes on a different scope.
If there is anything I am working on for you that needs to be resolved before Jun 1st, please let me know so I can prioritize it and get it knocked out before I go offline.
I am working on a project to do some screen casts for Vista. I also want to do some for Longhorn as well to post through my blog. But I don't want to show you things that *I* think you want to know. I want to show you things that *you* want to see....drop me an email or a comment and let me know what features in Longhorn you would like to see....
*** Update -- All three have been claimed! ***
I have three (3) Technet Plus subscriptions that I am offering up to the first three (3) people to respond to me via email. I can only send these out in the US though so my apologies to my international readers.
email me - chris.avis@microsoft.com
I will update this post when they are claimed....
(subtitled - too much time on my hands....)
Sometimes I can't help but laugh at some of the comments I get on evaluation forms from my events. Today's chuckle comes in the form of....
"too much time spent on stupid video..."
Now and then I break up the monotonous drudgery of a 4 hour technical session with a humorous picture, joke, and yes, on occasion, a stupid video. I don't take any issue with the "stupid video" part of the comment. It is silly. But I do wish the address the "too much time spent" part of the comment.
The video in question is exactly 2:36 (2 minutes, 36 seconds). Add in the setup (30 seconds tops) and the wrap-up (30 seconds tops) and we have a grand total of 3:36 spent dealing with a stupid video. *IF* my sessions we 30 minutes long, I can see that taking up 11% of the session in a stupid video as a valid concern. But in a session that is 3.5 hours long (take 30 minutes out for breaks) we are only chewing up about 1% of the session with the stupid video. I am trying to think of what topic I could have gotten into regarding Vista that I could have meanigfully conveyed without prompting any further questions in 3:36. I think it was a valid use of time....
Now, I don't want to sound like I don't take customer feedback seriously. In fact I would really appreciate it if people who rate a session as a 5 out of 9 would spend 60 seconds in the comments section telling me "why" so I actually have a clue as to why they didn't like the session. But I can't help but think that some people just need to lighten up.
I have casually followed Stephen Hawking's life for many years now. His recent foray into weightlessness caught my eye a few weeks ago before he made his flight. I meant to post about it then but dragged my feet. All good though because this story and video say more about it than I could.
I will be in my old stomping grounds of Southern California to deliver some Technet Briefings next week. On Tuesday, May 1st I will be in West Hollywood at the Hyatt. On Thursday, May 3rd I will be in Irvine at the Spectrum Theater. I will be covering Vista, Forefront, and Longhorn. I will be back in SoCal one more time before summer truly kicks in on May 15th down in San Diego at the Mira Mesa theater covering the same.
I look forward to seeing some of the familiar faces!