...what should have been an amazing day

Yesterday would have been a fantastic day -- although when I got back to my hotel I heard about the Virginia Tech Massacre -- My heart goes out to the victims and their families. There's nothing more to be said.

Last week I went on a family vacation, my first one in years -- on the way back I flew directly to Las Vegas for the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) event. It was pretty huge --Shane Robison EVP Office of Strategy and Technology for HP was doing the keynote and he invited a few guests.

One of the guests was from Industrial Light & Magic, the company who created Pirates of the Carribean Dead Man's Chest. These guys do some pretty amazing stuff -- the entire movie was created with PC technology, it was really neat to see how it came together.

I was asked to join Shane on stage near the end along with professional snowboarder and skateboarder Shawn White near the end of the keynote where we showed some Labs technologies with gaming and entertainment possibilities.

It was the most certainly the largest audience I have ever spoken to, around a thousand people! I must thank Ben Phillipps and Phil McKinney for helping me out with this event - their advice went a long way.

In any case, it was a fun day up until I got back to the hotel and watched the news.