It’s official: TechEd 2007 will take place at the Orange County Convention Center, the same place as 2005. It seems that New Orleans didn’t quite recover from Katrina yet.

 

You can read more at http://www.microsoft.com/events/teched2006/default.mspx.

 

It’s a good opportunity to take the family along. I did it in 2005 and my kids had a great time.

I watched recently a documentary called “Who killed the Electric car”. They claim that General Motors designed this workable electric car technology only to dump it later, at the cost of more than a billion dollars plus the lost opportunity of being the electric car leader. The documentary fells a lot like “Taken for a Ride”, on how street car companies were bought by a consortium of General Motors, Firestone and Standard Oil and then scrapped in favor of freeways, automobiles and buses (check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_conspiracy).

 

The only thing missing from “Who killed the Electric car” is the punch line: General Motors did benefit from the shutdown of tram companies all over the United States. In the case of the electric car, it seems that Toyota got the better deal.

 

I just read on CNN that the most economic cars are made by Toyota: http://www.cnn.com/2006/AUTOS/10/17/fuel_economy_guide/index.html. There are a couple of Hondas, and some Fords Hybrids made with licensed Toyota technology.

 

General Motors is in dire straits as we all know. Even well-thought conspiracies can go terribly wrong.