A quick note from behind the scenes at the Bill Gates Opening Keynote at CES.  I'm sitting in the green room right now having just gone through the first runthrough with BillG & team. Tech load-in happened yesterday and I continue to be amazed at the complexity of putting on an event like this and the dedication of the crew, and the rallies among the team. Everything is coming together great. We have a few surprises in store with today's demos and this is shaping up to be one heck of a CES keynote.

Yes, I wil be on-stage doing a series of demos. Hopefully everything will go exactly as planned but there are always gremlins- a USB booster goes out, electron drift :).  Most don't get noticed but these demos are all actual code- no Flash mock-ups here. Right now my biggest concern is bandwidth (isn't that always the case) due to the event and capacity of the venue at the Hilton.  Things seem to have sped up though in recent hours. 

While I cannot go into details, I'm planning on posting a photostory with recap entry later this week. Directly after the keynote, I'll be logging some downtime with my team-mates as we “postmortem“ over a few drinks and munchies.

If anyone wants to stop by and say hi, I'll be in the Microsoft booth tomorrow helping out in the PlaysforSure at Home booth and floating around the Media Center booth from approximately 10am to 2pm.