Don:

- "I'm on an airplane, we're about to crash, my head is down between my legs [Note from Rory: saucy] and the captain has said that I can take five XML specs with me."

- "Which ones?"

1. soap

2. ws-addressing

3. ws-mex

4. xsd

5. wsdl

I think I got the list right, but I'm not sure. I was kind of busy drawing a moustache on Michael Jackson.

Anyway, when listening to Don, it's very easy to get the feeling that he lives and breathes this stuff.

And I don't mean that in the traditional cliched manner.

I mean that I think he lives in a tank that's filled with nerd gas, and that's what he breathes. When he comes out into the regular open air, he just wears The Patch or something.

Also, his hair is really short now.

It went from big to medium to small.

Don with long hair at last year's talk

Don with short hair at this year's talk

I think it's obvious which one's better.

It would be interesting to spend the day inside of this man's noggin.