No, I'm not going to Tech-Ed. I pretty much agree with Sahil on it. (Man, seeing the words "I...agree with Sahil" in black and white is just plain disturbing!)
But there was One Thing I wanted to experience at Tech-Ed, One Session I wanted to see above all others: the Smart Client Architecture session with Billy Hollis and Rockford Lhotka. Those two guys together talking Smart Clients! Thanks to a reminder from The Lermanizer, I checked out the list of Tech-Ed 2005 Live Webcasts and Woo-Hah, darned if it wasn't in the list! Here's the webcast link for anyone who wants to register. I could probably catch this session later, but Billy and Rocky are best experienced Live!
As a side note, the list of on-demand webcasts on the Tech-Ed Webcast page is as extensive as I've seen. Lots of goodness here that I didn't know about, since I simply couldn't locate webcasts before--and I tried.