The first general session got everyone excited the things they showed were very innovative and fun. The breakout sessions to follow were rather hit and miss as far as capturing interest and effectively showing a more in-depth view of the technologies being pushed. Evidence of this was seen by anyone that noticed all the tiny watch batteries on the floor from people bored or maybe curious enough to want to take apart the cool little penlights in our goody bag. I walked out of the Tuesday afternoon general session, apparently just before everyone else did. If it was really necessary to tell us “Why” we should be using these technologies then they are useless. I’m sure if it wasn’t obvious to us we would have been hanging out at the bars and gambling tables a lot more and not crowding ourselves into every corner of most sessions.
The free Microsoft software was a definite bonus and the food was quite surprisingly good especially the cheese blintzes with raspberry sauce for the Wednesday breakfast. Of course the coolest little gadget was the blue light “ice cubes” we stole from our glasses at the Mix07 party at the Pussycat Dolls Lounge in Caesars Palace courtesy of Silverlight.
The Venetian was a gorgeous venue for the conference, and I had a wonderful stay there with exception to the lack of hot water on Wednesday morning. On Monday and Tuesday it took quite awhile for the shower to warm up and on Tuesday night there was a note left after the nightly turn-down crew came through which informed those of us residing in that tower that the water would be completely turned off from midnight to 4am. I went to breakfast at a quarter after eight still un-showered. Not too big a deal I guess. I made sure to take a long shower before checking out though. 
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