At the SQLBITS conference I bumped into Liam Westley who kindly 'volunteered' me for one of the Grok talks. Since Barry Dorrans is now an MVP (congrats Barry) he had also been 'volunteered' into organising the Grok talks so I went along and filled in some space on his flip chart and gave a quick talk on SQL mirroring without using a domain controller (which means you can save having two domain controllers if you want resilience).
Finally I have had some free time to convert the notes Liam and I made at a previous gig into a standalone word document which you can download here. This was a bit of a rushed talk on the day since I hadn't been planning to do a Grok talk but I think it gave folks a flavour on the day of why you would want to do this (Liam somewhat unfairly had done some preparation on his talks).
Now back to getting to grips with WPF for a talk I'm planning for DDD7.
Note to: Barry / Ian yes I will come along and do dry runs to the nxtgenug / London DNUG before then, but I want the finest MSDN socks available to humanity, I want them here, and I want them now.