By now I’ve had time to unload my loot, get some sleep, and start combing through the stack of tech rags, marking articles I want to read at a later time, and combing through the massive blog backlog from the past week.

::sniff:: The last day of my first ever TechEd. It’s been a hell of a week and well worth it.

[via Stefan & Chester] Stefan Goßner mentions on his blog, giving credit to Chester for the find, on how to determine if a user is or isn’t an administrator without going into the database!

Not just for FireFox anymore, get the latest MSN Toolbar (with desktop search which is just a flat out killer addition for Outlook as well) and get some tabbed browsing love.

I posted the big news from TechEd USA here and here, but you really should also read Arpan’s post about it as well as it’s from the more official source.

Thursday was yet again a session heavy day. The end of the day brough the party at Universal Studios which included free rides, drinks (including beer & wine), and food (they even bought out a few buffets to scatter trough the park.

Day 4 involved mostly sessions… not a lot of interaction at cabanas and such. Scott Guthrie’s sessions (WEB323 - ASP.

Yet again, more non-breaking news form your TechEd 2005 blogger AC. Wireless connection is useless for me… part because of all the RF interference from the mass power running through this place, but also because I think I’m having issues.

Arpan Shah’s second MCMS session at TechEd 2005 USA, PRT337 - Best Practices for Designing and Building Content Management Server Solutions, covered a ton of great information on best practices, things you shouldn’t do, things you should look at, etc.