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<crosses fingers> Here's my entry... </crosses fingers>

PDC will be my first major conference in several years and I will look forward to blogging about it.  If I win I'll start blogging about the journey from winning the contest - starting with the winning announcement to making arrangements and all the way through to the flight home.  I'll blog the bits I learn and bring my laptop for doing so.  I'll also use the time to meet up with other bloggers and finally put faces to the names - and take every opportunity to network and gather swag.

I'm really looking forward to the all the session surrounding Whidbey and Yukon along with a view of the changes to the compact framework.  I'll also be able to take this information back and put it to use right away.  And finally as my wife and I are expecting twins in January this might be the last conference chance for a while.  I figured I'd throw together a little poem - I guess you could say it was "influenced" by a popular children's book.

You can think up some code.
That’s what you can do.
You can think about scripting or ASP2…

You can think about Team Server
You can think about a link
That takes you to Ajax…
Oh the THINKS you can think!

Oh the thinks you can think up if only you try!

If you try,
You can think up
A blogger going by.

And you don’t have to stop.
You can think about SOP.
SOP. SOP. Beautiful SOP.
Beautiful SOP with abstractions on top.

You can think about cryptography
You can think about API  (rhymes with ‘happy’)
You can wonder to yourself
why they never called it CrAPI.

Think first of LA
And then think of generics
Think of conference food

And then grow hysteric

Think, Think and wonder.

Wonder and think.

How much water

Can thousands of developers drink?

And you can wonder…

How much C

will be left

In version 3 

Or think of Scoble the Bloggerman

Who scatters the hype

Several times a day

And never on skype

Oh, There are so many thinks

a thinker can think

Would you dare stump the expert

Or just have a drink?

Oh the thinks you can think!

Think! You can think

Any think

that you wish

Think of a race

On C#

On 64 bits

With a fish

Think of the sessions

Think of PDC

Think about blogging

And the role there for me!

Think left and think right

Think low and think high

Think of sending me to PDC

It’s easy if you try!