My last day as an MVP.

Today is my last day as a .NET MVP.  I first received the MVP award back in October 2001 when there was only a single classification of ".NET" and awards were give out mainly on your contributions to the USENET newsgroups.  Today, the .NET MVP awards are divided into subcategories such as C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET and awards are given for all sorts of community activities.  It's been a great ride and I was lucky to have a great lead in Rafael Munoz at Microsoft.

While reviewing my contributions to the community for the past year (which I'm not afraid to admit were much lower than last year's), Rafael called me personally at home to discuss the situation.  We had a great chat and both agreed that my contributions didn't "stand out" as was expected by the MVP program.

I'll still be active in both my local .NET community as well as online.  Perhaps one day in the future I'll be noticed by Microsoft.  Until then -- thank you Rafael and Microsoft for recognizing my contributions.  It's been a fun five years!