I made it to Seattle eventually. Had to go via Vancouver in the end and only just managed to check in for my connecting flight to Seattle with 1 minute to spare. There is no direct baggage transfer so I couldn't use the transfer lounge. Had to clear Canadian customs, wait for bag, exit agriculture (very lax compared to NZ where everyone's luggage gets scanned), lug it to the Air Canada ticketing counter to get a boarding pass then go through USA customs (in Canada – that was kind of cool), drop bags off, go through security, get on plane, never going that way again unless I stay a day or two in Vancouver.
For the last 3 nights I have not been able to sleep, not even a wink. I felt like I was going to fall asleep during the presentation I was giving at TechReady first thing this morning though and it probably showed.
Anyway, here are the links to some public resources I talked about in my session for any MSFT's who were there and wanted them.
Rather than letting SharePoint create sub-optimal databases, you can have a DBA create them in advance
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262869.aspx
Plan for administrative and service accounts (yes, you need a minimum of 5 AD account to setup MOSS)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263445(TechNet.10).aspx
White paper: Planning and Monitoring SQL Server Storage for Office SharePoint Server: Performance Recommendations and Best Practices
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=105623&clcid=0x409
White paper: Database maintenance for Office SharePoint Server 2007
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=111531&clcid=0x409
Predeployment I/O Best Practices, SQL Server Best Practices Article
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/bestpractice/pdpliobp.mspx
Single content db with many site collections and sub-sites can get badly fragmented user data and documents table index's.
See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943345/ to REORGANIZE or REBUILD them
New SharePoint Central Administration UI tool to schedule locking/moving of Site Collections between content databases
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=263cd480-f6eb-4fa3-9f2e-2d47618505f2
P.S. Hotel wireless sucks when there are 400 MSFT's trying to use it simultaneously. 1Kb transfer rate for me L