Last night’s Geek Dinner did not have many people last night, but the people who did come were all great folks.  Shawn Wildermuth, Atlanta’s resident MVP on ADO.Net, planned the event and came armed with loads of trivia about old TV shows.  Mark Dunn, a Visual Basic.Net MVP, showed up with even more TV trivia.  Keith Rome, Michael Earls, and I made up the rest of the dinner crowd.  We talked about music, TV, programming, and the Atlanta Code Camp.  On the topic of programming, I wanted to point this out to the masses who read my blog (and don’t read Shawn’s b/c he’s already posted this).  Check out the OldNewThing blog on MSDN  for some really cool code and code history.

Back on the topic of the low Geek Dinner attendance.  I’m wondering if we’ve got too much of a good thing going on here.  If memory serves, when we had one or two Geek Dinners a year the attendance was about 25 or 30.  Now that we’ve gone to one a month, attendance has really dropped.  Should we cut back the number of events?  Do we care if people don’t show up?  I, personally don’t much care – I’ll show up every time I can.  What does everyone else think?

— Matt Ranlett