::: {.Section1} [I loved the first day of PDC, felt a little antsy by the second, and by the time my flight climbed into the early-morning smog of LA yesterday, I was positively muddled. Speaking in a darkened room to a crowd of strangers is the most inefficient means of communication …

::: {.Section1} [Talk about burying the lede! Chris Pratley is beginning to reveal the capabilities of OneNote 12. He starts with import of printed and scanned documents, which they’ll OCR, and only then does he reveal that OneNote will do phonetic [voice-search!]{style="font-weight:bold"}[ ]{style="font-weight:bold"}]{style="font-size …

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::: {.Section1} [Scoble is saying that the phone deal at the PDC (a super-high-end phone for \$149) was a real screw-up and not the trickle-feed that I was sure it was. At JavaOne, they always play the same game of saying on the first day “Oh, we ran out!” and then …

::: {.Section1} [They have these special presentations in the press room in which certain topics are presented to a group vastly smaller than the general sessions. Generally, these are pretty mellow. At one this afternoon, though, the press made it clear that they are very skeptical that the Avalon / Windows Presentation …

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::: {.Section1} [At yesterday’s keynote Allchin demonstrated a forthcoming capability that allows a Flash-RAM memory stick to be used for system memory. Tom Murphy pointed out the killer application for this capability: “gen up VPC images that could just boot on install.  You would jack in the memory, it would …

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::: {.Section1} [Very much enjoyed Joe Duffy and Joel Pobar’s session on “Build a compiler for managed code in less than an hour.” Basically, they stepped through the classic compiler stages (scanner, parser, code gen), but then went into how, in the .NET world, the System.Reflection.Emit libraries work …