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At least I'm not a red shirt. What Star Trek character are you?
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You are Chekov

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Kudos to conference organizers for promoting each other's conferences! Kevin Cully runs FoxForward and Rich Schummer, Doug Hennig, and Tamar Granor run Southwest Fox. Each of the four has blogged or posted something in a forum, about the other conference. This is one thing that's great about the Fox community. Even when you are competitors in a tight and shrinking market, the Fox conference business, you still plug the competition. Those two conferences and the German DevCon are all within two months of each other, making them all the more competitive. I hope all three conferences are wildly successful.

Mark your calendars! Microsoft announced today at its World Wide Partners Summit in Denver that Visual Studio 2008, SQL Server 2008, and Windows Server 2008 will ship on February 27 and have a launch event in Los Angeles. [CNet]

Bill is no longer the world's richest man. It's now Carlos Slim. [Engadget]

Over 10 years ago, I was first named a Microsoft MVP. The person that nominated me was Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz, who was then a Fox MVP. Shortly after, he moved onto a new job and I didn't hear from him again.

Last year, I stumbled onto his blog and column for Dr. Dobbs. Arnon is now a software architect. I have been following his writings since then and we've had some contact via email.

Now, Arnon has again been named a Microsoft MVP, this time as a Solution Architect. Welcome back! I hope we can meet up at the Summit in April.