Once again I am off to Seattle to partake in the madness that is the Penny Arcade Expo. I was going to do the same trek I did last year with the West Coast Train Trip but unfortunately my cohort in the trek had to back out. This year I will be traveling on the dork planes from Virgin America both there and back again. I have to give it to Virgin America, I was going to be in a middle seat but their First Class upgrade was only $50. Hell if I am going to pass that up. Last time I was in First Class was a kid on a standby ticket with the family. I hope to get some Fallout 3 action and I might try and find my way into a DnD 4e game. I'll definitely be in for the concerts with Jonathan Coulton, Anamanaguchi, and Freezepop. It's too bad the first night concerts are during the movie, The Gamers:Dorkness Risin.I want to see that but at least it is on Netflix now. I'll be posting pictures and updates during the week.
In Other News
I got my hands on a new Dell PowerEdge 1900 and I will be running ESXi on it. I plan on virtualizing about 10 servers on the thing. The list so far is;
- Windows Server 2008 Domain Controller. (DNS, DHCP, AD)
- SQL Server 2008
- SQL Server 2008 SSAS Data warehouse
- SQL Server 2008 SSRS, SSIS
- IIS 7, FTP
- Sharepoint Services 3.0 SP2
- System Center: Operations Manager
- Windows Server 2008 Cluster
- Development Server with Visual Studio 2008
I'll be busy for a while I surmise.