Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Mitch teaches in Aachen, Germany (part 5)

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The Aachen office is under construction so Microsoft rented a conference facility 2 Km from the office in a castle called Schloss Rahe. The castle has a moat, a dungeon, and well-appointed, brightly lit conference rooms. We had no projector but someone ran back to the office to get one (a tiny 8" squared unit that worked amazingly well). Microsoft Redmond sent the printed workbooks too late but they arrived literally minutes before the class began. The food and coffee at Castle Rahe is bad (except for the fresh fruit) and there is no Internet available, ouch! However I had almost all of the materials I needed and the courses ran quite well without network access.

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