I went to MEDC (Microsoft Embedded DevCon) last Tuesday. I don’t want to go at first, have loads of thing to do at office, but I came anyway. DevCon stands for “developer conference”, so please remember, do not hope to find lots of cute girls there. Well, I’m not saying female developers are not cute, but they are scarce. But, if you are, a cute female software developer, do send ur pics to my email ;)

Ok, enough talking crap. As usual, there’s lots of talks, which I don’t really listen to. Since that I don’t really dig into embedded or mobile developement and stuff, so most of what they said were gibberish to me. The keynote speech was fun though. I kinda like the hands-on-labs (there’s one hot girl instructor in the lab). The computers are pretty slow, maybe because we have to run the tutorials in Virtual PC. I did several tutorials, like, err, I dont remember, hhmm.. did I tell you there’s one hot girl instructor?

Ok, what else that I did? That’s it I guess. Besides lots of eating. This time the food is nice. Breakfast, and then buffet lunch, and 2 tea breaks. More than enough, even for me.

At the end of the day, they did a SumoRobot competition. First I thought it’s going to be lame. Like, there’s 2 lego-like robots, pushing each other outside a small ring. Thats sounds lame to me, man. But, it turns out pretty interesting. You have to program the AI for the robot, use the signal from the sensors to turn, etc. And the thing runs .NET Compact Framework. The Australian ring-master really spice up the tournament. By speaking a Japanese accent, and repetitively making funny remarks about Australian lost at World Cup. I came back thinking maybe I should enter for the next tournament. Thats at TechEd SEA, next November. Or, maybe not.

Didn’t win anything this time. Last time I got 2 Microsoft keyboard. But my friend won an iPaq something model something. It’s a PDA-phone. Very nice. Slick, and not too bulky. I did got a souvenier bag. It’s a geek bag that you usually see geeks use (who else would use a geek bag?). I really wanted this thing. A good way to express your inner geek. And I got a t-shirt. Very cheap, yet sexy, ‘coz the fabric is not really good.

Ok, then I went back on my motorcycle (her name is Wahida), and I listen to the radio with my handphone (my hp can play radio, yours can ah?), coz my motor don’t have stereo system. And then I heard this song “Stars Are Blind” by.. guess who? Paris Hilton. Her debut single. Which actually sounds quite nice. Because the music sounds like ska. I like ska. But after I saw the video clip (it’s Paris Hilton guys, gotta download the video), I realised it’s more like reggae. But I don’t really like Paris, ‘coz she a *tut*. Her voice sounds like Gwen Stephani. Gwen should’ve sing it better. Or maybe Sixpence None The Richer would be better. A lot of actors going into singing these days (does Paris act?). Like Hillary Duff. But she sounds quite nice, I like her. And some time ago there’s this song, “Barenaked” by Jennifer Love Hewitt, which I like also.

Ok, that concludes my MEDC 2006. My entry this time is mundane, lack of good choice of words. Maybe because it’s 1.44 AM right now, and I’m tired. Ok, good night.