Day one seemed long.  After the keynote I hung out in the cabanas until my first run at the INETA BoF Prize Patrol (we're the group of people wearing parrot hats...).  The INETA cards we have handed out need to go in your badge and if we spot you on patrol you might win an instant prize that may contain Sex Wax (it's SFW.  I'll give non-US attendees a break, but for the rest of you where have you been?  You're still afraid to go?  It's surf wax, for your surf board...)  We're having drawings at the INETA both everyday at 1pm and 3pm so stop by for a chance to win an XBox or PPC for (we're giving one away every drawing).

I mentioned an IBM Thinkpad Tablet PC, this might be it.  There's a lot of other chatter in the news about it but those were the first set of pictures I've seen.

As far as sessions went today... I hit Visual C# 2.0 IDE tips and tricks, it was this dual demo competition showing off various parts.  The first bit was pretty boring some Whitehorse stuff and then a little bit about process management with constraints on an FxCop like tool built into the IDE.  It was about this point I was in serious danger of snoring so I left, apparently some of the refactorings were cool, but I use ReSharper so I'd have to see some serious innovation on top of ReSharper to be impressed.  Some of the code expansion was supposed to be interesting, I probably would get just as much if not more from the DVD at the end. 

Then I went to Anders' C# 2.0 under the covers...  If you're interested at all in C# you've got some obligation to hearing Anders' speak (it'd be like a perl guy and Larry Wall..., or linux and Linus, well you get my point).  Some interesting stuff with generics, specifically with how they're implemented, but not too many suprises if you keep up with the blogspace fairly well.

I'm looking forward to tomorrow, it looks like some better sessions and we start Birds Of a Feather sessions tomorrow.  Speaking of BoF, I just got added, Wednesday Cabana 1, 7:45 - 8:45pm we're going to be talking about Test Driven Web Application development.