On a personal note, I got an email on January 1st from Microsoft informing me that I have been recognized as a Microsoft MVP for Windows Azure. This is for my community work around Windows Azure: founding the Boston Azure User Group, blogging, speaking, and some customer advisor work with Patterns & Practices.
Thanks Microsoft!
Coding Out Loud 
Congrats!!!
Bill,
You are so modest that you didn’t even mention you are the new MVP for Azure at the Boston Azure monthly meeting.
CONGRATULATION.
– Nazik
@Arra – thank you
@Nazik – thank you too. Though, in case you didn’t notice, this blog post by “Mr Modest” includes a ginormous MVP logo… 🙂
Hope to see you guys at both the Hackathon (Wed Feb 16) then at the regularly scheduled Boston Azure meeting (Thu Feb 24 – topic is Cloud Security).
-Bill