We have one more week to go before Tech Ed 2007 takes off in Orlando, Florida. It looks like this is going to be a great event, also for mobile and embedded developers. This year, our mobile and embedded presence at Tech Ed is bigger than ever, something I am absolutely thrilled about. We have tons of new cool technologies to show and to talk about. Of course you will learn a lot about Visual Studio Orcas, about the .NET Compact Framework 3.5 and about all great tools that will ship with Visual Studio Orcas to allow you to create better applications in a shorter time. At the same time we won’t forget about technologies you can use today, so you will be informed about the .NET Compact Framework and about Visual Studio 2005 as well. I was particularly thrilled to find out that not only my Visual Studio 2005 related demos are working, but also my demos based on Visual Studio Orcas are working as well, even running Visual Studio Orcas inside a Virtual PC and deploying applications to emulators. The only thing left to do is rehearse each and every day until Thursday June 7^th, especially since I need to fit my presentation in a 75 minute slot. As usual there is too much to talk about and too little time during a breakout session. So this week will see some interesting struggles for sure, what to leave out of a performance presentation and what to absolutely leave in there. The upcoming week is interesting for another reason as well. I have been staying in the USA for four weeks now. This time was needed to attend MEDC in Las Vegas, fly to Redmond for a Tech Ed dry run, present a Webcast, spent time with friends and write a few articles about Windows Embedded operating systems. Originally I made flight reservations for this trip only. The minute I got my flight reserved I got the speaking engagement at Tech Ed. Of course I tried to change my flights, simply staying two more weeks in the USA. Well, it turned out that was too much to ask. The airline informed me that I purchased a special ticket that is only good for four weeks, so it was impossible for them to extend it. I could pay like an additional $2500 to allow me to stay longer. After some research it turns out that I could go back and forth between Amsterdam and Orlando for only $1500. So this is what is going to happen. I fly back to Amsterdam today and I leave again for the USA next Saturday for an additional week. Who understands airlines? Instead of having only one Trans Atlantic flight to deal with, I am now flying three times within two weeks across the Atlantic Ocean because this is cheaper. And here I am thinking that we, embedded developers are sometimes weird and hard to understand. I know better now. Airlines are a complete mystery to me. Anyway, this is going to be an interesting week for sure. Even though being back in Holland for a few days I have decided to gradually move from Pacific Time to Easter Time. It only means that anybody who will call me in Holland before 1 PM or so, will probably get a voice mail. For me at least this is the best thing to do. Dealing with jetlag once is far more better than dealing with it for three times.