| The Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2005 was a
sold out conference, attended by over 6,000 partners. It's goal: to gain velocity and reach and exceed the mutual business goals. This year and into the future. Like last year I attended the conference with Jan Remko and to start things up this year, we decided to gain our velocity in a very typical Dutch way.
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 Sight seeing trip through Minnehaha park, near the Mississippi lock & dam #1 |
 This is me, disobeying at least 2 laws (as can be seen on the tarmac) |
 The view of downtown Minneapolis as seen from Lake Calhoun... |
 ...and this is Jan Remko watching that view during a Nicotine Break |
 The Minneapolis Sculpture garden near the Walker Art center |
 Total distance by bike that day: 45 km/28 mile (measured w/ Google Earth) |
 Nicollet Ave as seen from the skyway between the hotel and Convention Hall |
 Corner of 2nd Ave S and 8th St S (spotted by Ana Naranjo) |
 Jan Remko, unwillingly hooked up at the Oxygen bar of the Fiesta de la Solera |
 Paddlewheel cruise on the Mississippi river for the Dutch Microsoft partners |
 L2R: Nico (Twice), Rick (BVO), Marco (Capgemini), Tjeerd (I-want-to-grow-a- beard, Microsoft), Sandra (BVO), Patrick (Twice) and a few green bottles |
 Tough discussion between Jan Remko (left), Mariëlle (AAC Cosmos) and Sem (SA-Voucher, New Horizons AM/RO) |
 The Microsoft closing party started off with EB Fraley... |
 ...one of the deans of Kentucky country fiddling, here seen with an electric guitar |
 And after that, the B52s made their appearance |
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