Can you believe it? Already October again. Sigh. The year really flies when you lose half of it to Carbon Monoxide. On the positive side I don’t have fear turning on the furnace in a few weeks when it gets a little colder.
So Oct 1 has come and is almost gone (here in the good ol EST TZ) and today I got a very welcome email from the MVP Program… I have indeed been awarded the MVP award this year again. Cheer. 🙂 I was really concerned as I wasn’t able to commit any time to the newsgroups but I guess my listserv work, my web site, my free tools, my blog, my responses to the literally thousands of emails in the last year with questions for help were enough. I am happy, I really like the MVP program and the benefits it brings to me.
Sadly though my friend Dean was not re-awarded, I guess you can’t be both a Microsoft Employee and a Microsoft MVP at the same time. 🙁 This last Monday was his first day to work at Microsoft and the bastard has yet to email me or IM me to tell me how he is doing. So if you are on the MSFT campus and you read this and you are within distance to huck something hefty but not hefty enough to permanently harm Dean at him, could you please do so on my behalf? That would be outstanding. Pictures of requested hucking of semi-hefty items would be appreciated as well. Good luck Dean, you wanker. 😉
Glad to hear you’ve been re-awarded! Your comments, thoughts, help, insight, … are priceless and I hope you continue doing it (and in return you get re-awarded each year again :-))
-Bart
Congrats Joe!!! Well deserved; any one of those things you listed should easily qualify you for an MVP all of them together is unreal(I often wonder how you have the time).
If you didn’t get the MVP I’d say there is something wrong with the entire MVP program.
So now you need to start carving the pumpkins to put out front of the new place.
I’ve been checking the GAL ever since you hinted at him joining us. It would be cool to see you too in there. 🙂
Congrats on the MVP award! Supplying the community with AdFind should get you the MVP award all on its own every year; it puts the dsquery tool to shame.
I was also wondering how you have the time to contribute so much to the community. Here are 2 questions if you want to answer them…
1) On average, how much time would you say you spend each day on anything related to AD/Directory Services?
2) Robbie Allen mentioned in a post that at one time he practiced polyphasic sleep to get more done, do you do this?