This Saturday, I'll be on my way to Tech Ed 2005 in Orlando. My first Tech Ed, so I'm certain that will be great fun!

I'm sure I'm going to catch a lot of sessions, after all the agenda is huge (and even what's left in the personal planner still looks intimidating :-)). I guess I'll also be spending a lot of time around the Developer Express booth, being a member of their DX-Squad. So in case someone should be looking for me there, you know where to find me

Hm... calculating from the number of times I see any creature whatsoever vomit and considering the relation between the number of rats I usually have any kind of contact with and the number of non-rat creatures I usually have any kind of contact with, I don't think that's really a valid question to ask. But this blog article and the pages linked from there, especially this essay explain the scientific reason in great depth. Probably not really necessary to know, but a fun read, somehow :-)