I can't believe that TechEd is almost here!  I am so excited, especially since today it feels like a FALL day here in WA!!!  It is very gray and gloomy and it has been raining exceptionally heavy for this time of year.  I think I have warned before that I am a horrible blogger, but I have a really good excuse (at least lately).  I have been very busy buying a new house.  So maybe that is not a good excuse for everyone, but I think it is and I have been taking many unexpected vacation days to get all the things in order to close on the new one and I still need to get my old one on the market.  So if you are looking to move to Kirkland, WA... let me know and I have a house I can sell you.

Why I am so excited about this year's event... because I am the Security Track owner and I love my track and everything assocaited with it.  This year the Yellow TLC will be so much FUN and buzzing with excitement.  We will be hosting "Securiyt Smoothies" and we will be providing extra comfy lounging spots for you.  Not only will the event be buzzing on-site, but we are also launching a TechEd Security virtual site to accompany the overall event one.  You may have been reading one of my colleague's blogs, Brian Seitz who is the owner of the site as he has been asking for recommendations from you on what you want to see.  We are not only hosting the security content relevant to the event, but you will also find audiocast of interviews with top security experts including Mark Russinovich, Michael Howard and Steve Riley and much, much, more.  One of the fun things that you can do and win a prize (if you attend in person) will be to play  the Security Scavenger Hunt!  The only way to play will be to log on to our virtual site to get the questions and full details.  So I will blog more this week and next week and reveal the URL to our virtual site as well as well as more details about our game. 

I have to go and dig myself out of my backlog of mail.  More later....

--Ali