The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century » Seattle http://www.joeydevilla.com Joey deVilla's Personal Blog Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:47:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Seattle Travel Diary: The Market http://www.joeydevilla.com/2009/02/05/seattle-travel-diary-the-market/ http://www.joeydevilla.com/2009/02/05/seattle-travel-diary-the-market/#comments Thu, 05 Feb 2009 18:12:06 +0000 Joey deVilla http://www.joeydevilla.com/2009/02/05/seattle-travel-diary-the-market/

"Public Market Center" sign in Seattle

Pike Place Market is just begging to be photographed. I’ll post more pictures later this week.

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Liam, the house guitarist at Kells and Joey deVilla, jamming onstage

For the past couple of nights, we’ve ended up at Kells Irish Pub, located right by the market in Seattle’s Post Alley. We’ve made friends with Liam, their house musician. He’s been giving me a solid education in Irish folk music and I’ve been telling him about Burning Man.

Chances are we’ll end up there tonight. If you’re in the area, drop me a line, or drop by!

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Seattle skyline

This article also appears in Canadian Developer Connection.

Starting tonight (Pacific Coast Time), John Bristowe, I, and a few other folks from Microsoft Canada’s De veloper & Platform Evangelism team, will be in Seattle all next week to attend Microsoft’s 8th TechReady conference. TechReady is a Microsoft internal conference where ‘Softies from all over the world gather to get briefed on upcoming releases. The coming months promise a bumper crop of Microsoft goodies – Windows 7, Internet Explorer 8, Visual Studio 2010 and Azure to name a few – so the sessions should be very interesting. (I think I’ll actually be taking a lot of notes during the presentations rather than checking my mail or looking at that video of kittens riding a Roomba.)

We’re going to try to take advantage of this gathering to get some interviews with  some of the big brains at Microsoft from Redmond and all over the world, as well as show you some of the sights and sounds of Seattle. Watch this blog for updates!

Are you in Seattle? Want to catch up? Talk about Microsoft, software development, accordions. Zardoz or anything else? Drop me a line or give me a ring (416-948-6447)!

[Seattle photo by Andrew “papalars” Larsen and licenced under Creative Commons. Click here to see the original.]

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