Answer: not much really unless you're at a conference of some kind, in which case there's a lot in common. Faceless rooms, too much coffee, loss of all sensation of time...

Having spent a few days at NAB in Vegas, and then a few at AIC in Windsor, you start to go a little stir crazy.

Anyway, back to the regular grind.

I'm heading out to Redmond tomorrow before NAB. If you're there and fancy a meet-up, please drop me an email or a tweet.

I've just got back from Bletchley where I was with Mark Johnston and crew talking about the detail of WPF and Silverlight.

Top spot from Mark on the events noticeboard. Hmm...

The first set of sessions have begun to appear here.

So now the keynote for today is over, here are the links to the stuff that was mentioned:

• IE8 (then for some slicing action, have a look at Ebay)
• Silverlight 2 Beta 1
• Silverlight 2 Tools Beta 1 for VS 2008
• Expression - Blend 2.5 is the one you need for Silverlight 2
• Expression - Encoder 2 should have the new interesting bits an pieces
• DeepZoom Composer Preview - if you want to create experiences like Hard Rock Cafe Memorabilia
• Hands-on lab for Silverlight 2
• ASP.NET MVC Preview 2
• Source Code for SL2 Beta 1 Controls and Unit Tests

Plenty to keep ourselves busy then!

One of the amazing things about technology is the ability to connect to something far away: like MIX in Las Vegas, from the hills of Oxfordshire.

Right now, I'm watching various streams in Twitter, interacting with those, having a couple of IM conversations, looking at web resources and watching and listening to the live keynote.

Reading Tim Sneath's Live Blog entry is also Really Useful.

Sadly, I won't be at MIX this year - bah! Though I had enough fun last year probably to last into next year...

Anyhow, Tim Sneath is going to try and relay the happenings on his blog. Worth looking at his post for links to the streams too.

My colleague Mark Johnston (yes, we're all called Mark here in DPE) describes an event for academics on 12th March at Bletchley.

I'll be speaking about the technology behind WPF and Silverlight and the opportunities within that.

With MIX almost upon us, there's going to be a raft of announcements on new technology. First set of stuff comes on the Live front:

• The main announcement around the next set of Live services.
• The next version of the 'Quick Apps' is here. These are a really useful learning resource, and in some cases a 'starter for 10'.
• Angus has also placed links for a bunch of presentations on the new Windows Live Messenger Library, Live Contacts API and Live ID Delegated Authentication.
• The new Silverlight-powered MSN Toolbar.

I think the trick to keeping up-to-date with Live services is links to http://dev.live.com, and the feeds from there,  Liveside.net and Angus' blog. Everything you need.

Angus is clearly working way too hard!

Speaking of events I probably should have mentioned previously that the registration has opened for Architect Insight.

Change of venue this year - previous events have been in at Celtic Manor - to Beaumont House in Windsor.

I'll be speaking in two sessions:

• "Oslo I thought..." - All about the upcoming Oslo technologies. My old (and new!) colleague Mark Bloodworth will be co-presenting here.
• Something around the 'Net Generation' and user experience expectations. I'm hoping to have some help here too!

I'm thinking of wandering around with a camera to grab some Vox Pops too - maybe a '10 Yes/No style questions thing'.

Be good to see you there - I've really enjoyed these events previously as it's a great chance for a UK-centric get together.