I hear you there, I am also coming from Edmonton..... looking forward to the nice weather.

I'm just packing up my stuff, and just want to wish everyone a safe trip down, see you all monday night. Can't wait to meet you all.

Business Casual. Best way to describe the dress code.
Cargo shorts and light shirts for extra-curricular activities.
And a hat.
And sunscreen.
And sunglasses.
And a towel. (to dry off after those water based rides)

Yeah baby! Already checked into my room! Off to find some late breakfast / early lunch. Maybe a local theme park might have something to eat. LOL

LOL... I leave early Monday... See you all there.

Good news and bad news.

Good news: I visited the conference room floor. It's almost double the size from last year. The Showcase Solution room is now just a meeting room. The LARGER room behind it (the one under construction last year) is now the Showcase. HUGE!

Bad news: (1) Champs is not Champs; it's now called High Velocity. It should be High Velocity PRICES. Only 5 items are under $10 now. The decor is now more hardwood than sports-like. Oh well.
Bad news (2) Remember the problems with the door keys not working all the time last year? Same problem again. I've already got my key replaced. They're AT&T this year (Verizon last year)

That's all for now! See everybody soon!
DBB

On my way DarthBBerry. Sitting at Ohare waiting to board. I should be in paradise around 1:30pm.

yeah we hit up 'champs' last night, can't say I was over fond of the refurb either, seemed to a bit to much 'glitz' and not soo much fun... hey ho..

bb

I made it down after a long flight delay. This place is much larger than I expected.

Time to look around and fine me something to eat.

Checked into the hotel a few hours ago, found the closest 711 and grabbed a case of Miller High Life (us canucks cannot get this fantastic beer in Canada)

Planning to go and get registered up / get acquainted with the surroundings tomorrow.

Is everyone meeting up for a beer somewhere tomorrow?

BoxTone Lounge to start, at 6pm. After that, we'll make it up as we go along. We need to find a good place in the lounge/dining area for breakfast and lunch each day. As I said, we'll make it up as we go along.
G'night all, long day today. x14 knows why.

Checked into the hotel a few hours ago. Had some internet issues. Using my 8830 for a modem and I am getting horrible speeds (5kb/sec) and timeouts (think I fixed those though). I am currently on the hotel's connection ($9 a day). Anyone else on Verizon get crap speeds here? I made sure I was not routing through my BES. I have gotten 90kb/sec before in other areas, but I had a 7250 then.

Oh well. See you all tomorrow.

I'm a single malt girl. My half-Scottish blood line means I prefer the highland singles. Now if they were giving away a nice Speyside single like Glenrothes, that would be different...

Last year the in-room internet was free - I think they credited back at checkout, so I assume the same is the case this year...

Well this day could be going better. I did not know the training sessions were an additional cost as I was not included in the regestration process. My manager did everything. So here I am at the convention and I have nothing to do until 6.

On top of that I have no rental car. That is being fixed soon though. I am currently waiting outside for a cab to drive me to the rental place. Then I have a whole bunch o time to kill.

I look forward to seeing you all at 6.

So I guess thats the plan. Meeting everyone at 6PM.. I am hanging out by registration using the free wifi. If anyone wants to meet up, just post a place. I am up for it. Bored and by myself.

Being a conference n00b, not sure what to do until sessions tomorrow.

Hey all ..

Got here, checked in. Got all the registration stuff done and have been just wandering around getting to see where everything is .. I have an open afternoon so if anyone wants to grab lunch etc.

Sounds good to me. I haven't ate yet today. Where do you want to meet up?

I will laugh if we are sitting beside each other.

I actually went back to drop everything off so I don't have to haul it all around. Give me how about 12:30 and I'll come down and be by the registration desk?

*yawn*

I'm in the Admin 1 class today. It's a little more basic than I expected. I've never had any formalized training so I figured I'd start with this one.

I'm looking forward to 5:00!

I'm in admin 2 right now(just after lunch), and while it's good, it seems a bit rushed. Thank god we get a 200 page coiled text book to take home. I'm learning a lot about the actual data flow of everything, which i knew the basics of before, but not in depth. This afternoon we're gonna get into stuff like troubleshooting and logging, and I hope that that stuff is really good.

I'll try the Admin 2 next time. Admin 1 is good, its just a little slower paced than I expected.

I am currently sitting in the BoxTone gamer pad. I am wearing all green and have a huge Dell laptop if anyone spots me.

I am in the Boxtone lounge also with blue searsucker pants.. I dont think i have seen many wearing those today.

I'm standing outside the showcase. I don't see anyone.

I envy you guys at WES, I wanted to go but would have to use vacation time and my own money to register in order to attend. I work for a small start up of less than 30 employees and am not officially our BB support, just the guy you knows alot about Blackberrys...lol

Is anyone still meeting up tonight or am I to late?

Wirelessly posted

I tried to get to the lounge today, actually got over there a couple times, but we had a minor emergency with our BES so I spent some time on the phone with our exchange monkey trying to fix it. Are we meeting up for breakfast tomorrow somewhere? If so, let me know. I am going to be wearing black pants and a blue polo shirt tomorrow, I am blonde and have glasses. I will be there for breakfast. Probably early. Let me know.

JIBI, everyone... we need to get together and give er!

Let me know when , how, how, where..... this WES is where it's at man!

We're trying to meet up where breakfast/lunch is served at a table in the back-right corner of what ever room it may be in.

Good times last night. Even if Jibi ditched us for AT&T. LOL
Me, x14, mahoward, AlanM, new found friend Michelle, treedude, the CEOs of WICKSoft (good product!) and Kevin Crackberry (with friends) all eating and drinking in High Velocity.

Some of ya'll were MIA....
PIN me.

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I'll PIN you darth, missed you for reakfast, and cypress 1 just opened for the keynote so I am going in now to sit near the front

wtf is wrong with the att signal here? i never have more than 2 bars of EDGE! anyone else notice this too?

Anyone take the certification tests yet?

*Moved to the WES 2008 Forum*

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I know a couple of people who have. They say it was 65 questions, and had a much bigger focus on the security aspects that they were led to believe there would be.

Heh, i will postpone the certs for sure. not enough time to take them.
I spoke with some VIP folks from T-Mo, and did you know that the second choice for the music was Van Halen?
That would be total massacre!
Any1 in WA02 in Salon H?

Van Halen would have totall rocked man....

Outside the US I don't know how many people have heard of John M - I certainly didn't recognise many of his tunes apart from the coveres..

Yeah, he was choice of the US customers ... not a bad one, but it could be better.
We took over small bar in the back and we ended up in Kook's bar in Buena
Still have headache ...

Looks like it was a good concert (my colleague sent me a clip of John Mayer's performance so I could post it to our blog). Holy huge crowd.

On a side note, did you guys know that BlackBerry Cool is doing WES coverage?? I found out b/c my CEO was interviewed by them. Sorry if it's old news, but I thought it would be useful for those of you already down there.

Link: BlackBerry Cool | Best Of Wes - 2008

Might need to nap this afternoon before the Verizon party. Although the Starbucks did help last night.....

*play that funky music white boy* If you were there, you know EXACTLY what I'm talkin' about!