Here’s a Comdex 2003 Steve-o Matrix Parody Video for your enjoyment.
I’m planning on posting up my experiences of my 2 nights and 2 days of Comdex but I wanted to be sure and get this video up first thing. As a note I should point out that security was pretty darn tight throughout the entire show. No cameras were being allowed in on the show floor and for the Bill Gates keynote speech no photos were allowed after the first 60 seconds. Unfortunately I was found out by one of the security ladies and was asked to turn off the camera before I could grab the entire video, making things worse my Canon PowerShot G2 only takes 30 second clips at a time, even with the 1GB MicroDrive in there 
. To add to the stupidity, I completely forgot to start recording audio from the start on my iPAQ 5550, doh! I’ve got to go through everything I captured still since there might be some more goodies, if so, I’ll be sure to post it 
. So without further ado I bring you the Comdex 2003 Steve-o Matrix (Microsoftrix) Parody video. 
[UPDATE: Overnight my connection was hammered, I had to take the link down just to get on MSN Messenger so I could get the file moved to another server that's not just on a 128K up DSL line (hopefully that'll be 1500K up soon). In any case once I get the file copied over I'll put the link back up.
Sorry for any inconvenience and stuff like that ]
[UPDATE: As I was talking to my MVP lead an email arrived in his box that asked him to ask me to remove the video. It's gone now, sorry about that.]
[UPDATE: I've noticed a lot of referrerals to this page lately, guess that's kinda cool. I've also had a number of requests for the video, but really, I can't give out the video. I promised a friend I wouldn't and I'm sticking to that. I put up another video which honestly you probably won't even want to bother with. I'm pretty sure this one isn't sanctioned like the actual Steve-o Microsoftrix video :-). It's a minute long but be warned after seeing it once imagine sitting through 15 minutes of it! You'll understand the title after that ]
[UPDATE: Okay this should be the last update to this entry. I've just been getting a few emails and a few IM's asking if there is more video. There's also been a couple threads like on Slashdot, GeekNewz, etc. In any case I just wanted to reiterate that I don't have anything else in terms of photos or video. If I did I wouldn't be able to share because I've been asked very very nicely by Microsoft not to (read: never warned, no fists, nothing, just a nice suggestion from a friend). If there is a full video out there which I doubt since it probably would've turned up by now, please do feel free to alert me to it. I think it would've been quite difficult to sneak in a DV, even a really small one and most people probably didn't bother switching their digital cameras to video clip mode ]
Tags: Comdex, Media, Microsoft
November 19th, 2003 at 9:31 am
Erm. Given your crappy upload, may I ask why you chose to post a 368k/s video? 100 or 150 would have been equally good.
November 19th, 2003 at 7:50 pm
Well simply put, I keep the WMV not the original AVI’s that the camera recorded so I wanted the quality of my video to be equal to that of the original AVI’s. Plus I’m too lazy to save another copy of the video at 100Kbps.
November 21st, 2003 at 3:07 pm
Thank you for the note on my journal
I appreciate it, and your comments!
As for in the area…are you in the So. Cal. area?
November 29th, 2003 at 12:08 pm
Hi, Corey! The video has spread! I’ve found it here on http://www.only4gurus.com/v2/preview.asp?ID=4551 and someone told me that it is available too on edonkey!! Gr33tings!
November 29th, 2003 at 1:11 pm
I’m not really surprised. I think the video alone helped increase my Google PageRank. That was completely unexpected and unintentional mind you. I really have no control over the video at this point obviously. I think if I had known it would spread as widely as it as I might not have posted it in the same way. I probably would’ve only put up a private link for a select few friends. But nevermind, the blog is public and so is/was the video. I’ve found a couple other sources to the video by following links to the referrers of the blog entry. Of course once something hits eDonkey and Kazaa it’s too late, there’s no going back.