May 6, 2002 – Las Vegas. I will be there this week. Specifically, at the Interop show. Since everyone I know pretty much bailed on going this year (just like last year but only a few had just reason this year), I will be hanging out alone other than a few vendor reps I know.

I am planning on have my cam with me and taking some cam shots of the convention center and maybe things about the hotel I am staying at. I will also be doing some updating.

Playing with Greymatter in Apache for Win32, I have gotten it working. What I am unsure about is permission issues. In Unix, I know there are a handful of permission changes to specific files and directories. Same with IIS and NT (although I never got Greymatter to work in IIS 5.0) so I want to do one more install, document the hell out of it, test it from different workstation as both an admin level user and a grunt user and maybe send the docs to some of the Greymatter support sites I have seen. Will I push it out to my site? Maybe. I can see how it makes for some easier updating. I think I would opt for the index file created by Greymatter to be targeted to a frame on the true index file for the site so the overall design can be done outside the Greymatter product.

I FINALLY started the Switching book this weekend. It looks like it covers material I already know but I can smooth out the minutiae and I think I will be ready for the exam in late June.

It will be an interesting week…and I get some time ‘off’ from work. Next trip (other than road trip)…San Diego in late June.