Swag
First off … why is free stuff call swag? Who decided to call it that? Where did they come up with that word?
Anyways … I got some swag today. If you read this regularly (is there anyone who does … LOL), you know I talked about that seminar that I went to last week in Minneapolis. Well, we got our swag from it today. We got a “cool” tshirt. They actually called it “cool” on the site with the info on the seminar. The shirt has a seminar “tour schedule”. The funny thing … Minneapolis isn’t on it … LOL. There were also 2 nifty (my word … 
) temporary tattoos. Okay … I think they’re silly. They say “Microsoft .Net Connected” on ‘em.
We also got CD with SQL Server 2005 Beta 2 Developer Edition on it. There is also a Resource DVD and Hands-On Lab DVD on it, but I don’t have a DVD drive on my computer. I’ll have to check it out when I go to Ma and Pa’s next time. I don’t know if I’m going to try installing the Beta on my computer or not. I might just so I can play around with it for when we go to that at work. I’m not sure if my computer could handle it … LOL. I just looked at the CD. It has “Trial Software 547 Day Limit on Use” on it. 547 day limit … where did they come up with that? Why not just say a year and a half (okay … I opened up the calculator to figure that one out … ).
We also got Visual C#.net Standard (version 2003). I think that’s cool. Too bad I don’t know C#. I suppose I could install it and play around with it and learn (they’d probably love it at work if I did). It does say something about limited functionality if you install it on XP Home Edition … and that’s what I’ve got. I might install it. It wouldn’t hurt. And I pick things up quickly … I mean, when I started this job about 8 months ago or so, I knew nothing about MSSQL (only MySQL), and not I’m crankin’ out stored procedures and stuff on a daily basis. I could probably pick up C#, at least the basics, by playing around with the software. I’ll have to see.
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