CodeThinked

This one should be hitting the web big real soon, but according to a very recent post on the Internet Explorer blog IE8 is going to render in standards compliant mode by default and you will have to request IE7 mode with a meta tag! Hurrah! Was this one of the big announcements that they were going to make at Mix that leaked out? Or do they not think that this is hugely important? Well, I for one am extremely thankful that IE8 will attempt to play nice by default and you will have to ask it to be bad.

On a side note, it is about 5:30 am here in Las Vegas and I have yet to adjust to the time shift, hence why I am blogging at 5:30 in the morning.

Well, my first day in Vegas is over for me. I am absolutely exhausted from getting up at 5 this morning and now it is only 7:45pm here in Vegas, but that would put it around 10:30pm in Richmond. So it feels much later for me. It also doesn't help that I had a few beers with some people earlier, and now I can no longer say that I have never hung out with Rob Conery, Scott Hanselman, Jon Galloway, David Laribee and Michael Moser. I had a few drinks with them over at the Zefferino restaurant here at the Venetian. It was really cool meeting them all in person, and it was weird at the same time because you feel like you know them from reading their blogs every day. It was also nice that Scott Hanselman tossed me a free copy of his new book and I got him to reluctantly sign it. I'm sure I looked like a total douchebag getting him to sign the book, but hey, it is not every day that you get a technical author to sign his work! And one final thing to leave you with, here is pics out the window of my fancy schmancy hotel room: