It Must Be A Typo Or Something!?!?

Microsoft went and awarded me for my 4th year as an MVP (1 on ConfigMgr, and my 3rd on Virtual Machine aka Hyper-V).  It must have been a mistake.  Ben, are you sure you didn’t accidentally press Y instead of N on the survey?

I am, of course, relieved and honoured by the award.  Being an MVP is an amazing recognition (it even helps with my day job) but the networking opportunity within the MVP community (MVPs, Redmond folks, and [most importantly] those in the local subs), and with the many experts who are not MVPs (yet) is the best bit.  I learn so much from other MVPs like Damian, Patrick, Hans, Kristian (congrats!), via blogs and Twitter, and wish I could speak German and Dutch to learn more from others like Carsten (congrats too!).  I cannot fail to mention people like Didier who brings a sense of reason to my (frequent) rants and opinions in his comments, or a good guy like Mark who expands my horizons.  Folks in Microsoft Ireland like John, Will, Dave and Enda make my job and community efforts easier with Gavin and Neil now appearing on the radar, and people like Mike, Ben, Serdar, Michael, and Carmen in Redmond have been amazing over the last years.

And you, the poor person reading this tripe or trying to stay alive while I bleat on and on and in in my 3 hour diatribes on Hyper-V and System Center, make it all possible.  Thinking about those diatribes, I really would make a great evil dictator.  Or even better – a keynote speaker!!!!

Thanks all!  I’m sure I’ve forgotten someone or lots of someones …

Now I’m hitting the sack at nearly 7pm because I’ve been at the wheel for 5 hours today.  God knows what I’ve just typed.