I also need to thank the people at Veeam<\/a> who have recently joined my blog as a sponsor and who are also a virtualisation community supporter.<\/p>\n It has been amazing to see how many of you are buying things via my Amazon links. You\u2019ve kept me stocked with e-books (legally too!) and this week I had a nice new walkabout camera bag<\/a> for my big lens and some fast SD storage delivered to my hotel. My bruised shoulder where I\u2019ve carried my tripod lens thanks you!<\/p>\n This blog would be much lesser without the help of friends, MVP colleagues, and the folks in Microsoft who continue to help me.<\/p>\n I\u2019ve been lucky enough to be quoted and linked by many people, so thank you for sending your readers to me. The last 12 months saw another big increase in readers and it is much appreciated.<\/p>\n And thank you to those who read my blog, despite those occasions when I break down and erupt into a rant of some kind Coming to an event and having people say nice things \u2026 honestly \u2026 I\u2019m amazed. I hope I\u2019m not appearing like a jerk \u2026 I\u2019m amazed that someone from the USA wants a photo with me, that someone far away in Malaysia is reading my blog, or that someone in South America is reading a book that I\u2019ve written. Quite honestly, I\u2019m surprised every time someone looks at my name tag and says \u201care you \u2026 ?\u201d. When I started this blog way-back-when, I did a happy dance when I hit 100 page views in a day. I\u2019m just a short-fat-bald dude from soggy Ireland who rants every now and then, and I really appreciate the support you\u2019ve given and hope that I\u2019ve been able to share something of use for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Once again I have to thank the folks who are supporting my blog. There are so many kind people out there. Thank you to the folks at Altaro who have been great supporters of the Hyper- V community and for sponsoring my blog. I also need to thank the people at Veeam who have recently … Continue reading “Thanks Once Again To Those Who Support My Blog”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Smile\"](\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/wlEmoticon-smile.png\")
Every now and then, an email or comment comes in with a nice message and that can turn a crappy day into a good one. <\/p>\n