Steve Ballmer pointed out the main reason I stayed home from the TechEd 2004 conference in his keynote remarks at Tech·Ed 2004 yesterday:
It is an honor and a privilege for me to have a chance to kick this session off today, and to see so many, and I do mean many, folks here in San Diego for what I hope will absolutely be an informative, educational and perhaps most importantly, a lot of fun few days here in this beautiful California sun.
Actually, you missed that part. I would apologize on that normally, but what we have here is the first extension of our DSI initiative, Dreary Skies Initiative, Microsoft can now span out dreary skies from Seattle absolutely anyplace. It’s all under centralized management control.
As a transplanted Southern Californian, I would gladly have told Ballmer and Co. about the dreaded marine layer (aka May Gray and June Gloom), which covers the California coast in thick fog from May through at least the end of June and often well into July.
The good news is most folks at TechEd don’t have to worry about losing that trademark pasty look that comes from sitting in front of a computer monitor all day and all night.
And Ballmer was kidding about the “centralized management of dreary skies” thing, right? Right?
Ed Bott 