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That's A Wrap
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One Job, Many Hats.
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Strike Two.....
Posted by sidetnee on 22 Apr 2011
An R-Rated Rant
Posted by sidetnee on 17 Apr 2011
Quick Video Update Before CF Chat
Posted by sidetnee on 6 Apr 2011
Or so they say. I hope that this is actually the case as I am struggling to find time between sessions, career factor activities and partying to write a regular update!!
Saturday was a good day, seperate bookings for me and Dan gave us an in at flight check-in - result of asking to be sat together was an upgrade to premium economy. More recline and leg room, yes please. That was followed up by the queue jump at the Atlanta Hard Rock Cafe, people were being quoted 45 minute waits for a table, I just smiled mentioned Career Factor and they gave me the next available table! (my all access card had nothing to do with it, honest!)
Being on the early flight from the UK over to Atlanta meant that Dan and I were pretty much out of it before the rest of the career factor cast had made their way to the hotel on Saturday evening, one little drink and we were ready for bed.
I'm not sure who's idea it was to have a 7:30 breakfast meeting, but they have a lot to answer for. Here are the group looking bright eyed and bushy tailed and ready for a busy day .
I have to say, having spent a day with these folks, I am amazed at the fantastic dynamic that we have, everyone gets on so well with one another and the ribbing is endless. If you see Rabeb, ask her about her made up country!
The day pretty much flew by with filming activities taking place at the convention centre, followed by a treat that I had arranged for the group - a trip to see a baseball game at Turner Field, Braves Country.
Moment of the day for me was when Dan (who up to now had not met any of the group) walked up to Eddie outside the stadium, grabbed him and declared "You're Eddie from Career Factor, Oh My God". Total freak out moment.
That's all for now, there will be plenty more updates from the whole of the career factor cast during the week including our live appearance on stage tomorrow afternoon. Until then this is me signing off to attend an IT Manager focus group.
Thanks for reading
/SiD
The Career Factor cast met each other and many of their Microsoft champions at Tech•Ed North America
The arbitrary escalation from 'one thousand' to 'ten thousand' and the switching from Japan to China as the source leads us to smell a rat with this derivation. In fact, Barnard didn't introduce the phrase - his only contribution was the incorrect suggestion that the country of origin was Japan or China. This has led to another popular belief about the phrase, i.e. that it was coined by Confucius. It might fit the Chinese-sounding 'Confucius he say' style, but the Chinese derivation was pure invention.