I was at the internet cafe yesterday playing network games with no one. Talk about network gaming. Anyways, it was a Saturday off-peak hour and I wouldn’t expect people crazy enough to be in a network cafe during that time except for me.

An hour has past when a kid came in and started playing DOTA. I invited him if we could team up and play against the artificial intelligence computer; but to my surprise, the kid refused and wanted to play 1 on 1 against me. After some small talk, I learned he was a 9-year old kid who was on his first day of summer vacation.

I had a lot of fun in Seattle and the picture above was taken in the Whisky Bar with US SharePoint Architects and Project Managers on-shore. We partied a lot during the week long conference and worked hard during the day.

I remember one of the stories of a colleague a few years back about one of their top executives who saw employees who can party and drink a lot of booze until the wee hours of the night and get to the office the following day by 8 am as those that has the “it” factor to climb on top of the corporate ladder.

Do you find yourself being asked for advice in time of crisis? Do you find yourself giving good logical advice that the other person found useful?

How about this—do you find yourself empty of answers when you’re the one in crisis? Sometimes we already know the best and logical solution to our pressing situation; but often, we need to hear this from another person to validate, reinforce our belief and give us the strength to do the right thing.

I have previously posted my attendance in SharePoint Conference 2006 and now I am here in Seattle again attending SharePoint Conference 2008.

I would be reporting about this over at Techticles.

Do not whine. The biggest mistake you can do when you don’t get promoted is to whine about it. You may not agree with what happened but whining about it especially to your boss wouldn’t change the decision and may only validate their decision not to promote you.

What to do?

TechCrunch posted about a company named PayPerPost whose VP of Development Peter Wright went on an offensive against a candidate who turned them down.