The mail that got lost

by Mads Kristensen 8. January 2009 00:29

MVP award

When I was eating my breakfast at work Monday morning, the Microsoft developer evangelist Daniel called me on my cell phone. “Have you checked your mail?” he asked and I could hear in his voice that he was smiling more than usually. “Yes, of course” I replied, “Why?”.  “You won the 2009 MVP award in ASP.NET”. 

“SAY WHAT, for reals homes? That's awesome, but I didn't get the e-mail”. He assured me I won the award anyway, we hung up and I was really happy that I won the MVP. However, I did have a problem with the missing e-mail. What if Daniel was misinformed or some other mix-up had made me overly exited on false premise. I would be devastated if that was the case, since Daniel got me all worked up. Well, Daniel reassured me a couple of times during the day about the validity of his claim and that made me relax a bit.

Still, without that e-mail I wouldn’t know for sure…

Later that day I found the mail in Outlook’s spam filter, so now it's official.

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1/8/2009 1:59:57 AM #

Scott Salyer

Congrats! You definitely deserve it.

Scott Salyer United States |

1/8/2009 2:30:05 AM #

Davide Espertini

Congrats!

Davide Espertini Italy |

1/8/2009 3:26:55 AM #

Justin Barnes

Congrats... Just getting started with your blogger, great work.

Justin Barnes United States |

1/8/2009 3:31:53 AM #

Muhammad Mosa

Congrats Mads, it took so long Smile

Muhammad Mosa Egypt |

1/8/2009 3:47:31 AM #

Frederik Vig

Congrats! Smile

Frederik Vig Norway |

1/8/2009 3:50:47 AM #

Ben Amada

Congrats ... MVP is a great symbol of hard work and dedication!

Ben Amada United States |

1/8/2009 4:09:23 AM #

Haacked

Congrats, it's well deserved.

Haacked United States |

1/8/2009 4:38:42 AM #

Adam

Congratulations, Mads!

Adam United States |

1/8/2009 5:44:51 AM #

Vladimír Dědek

Congratulation!

Vladimír Dědek Czech Republic |

1/8/2009 6:08:15 AM #

Clarence Klopfstein

Certainly deserve it.

Congrats.

Clarence Klopfstein United States |

1/8/2009 7:01:37 AM #

Mark Johnston

Well done mate.

Mark Johnston Australia |

1/8/2009 7:05:35 AM #

Mike Houston

Very well deserved!!

Mike Houston United States |

1/8/2009 2:03:56 PM #

StevenMcD

Congrats man! Well deserved!

StevenMcD South Africa |

1/8/2009 2:21:23 PM #

Christian Sparre

Congratulations Mads. Well deserved! Smile

Christian Sparre Denmark |

1/8/2009 2:56:28 PM #

Mark Kordon

Congratulations!! Well done..

Mark Kordon Denmark |

1/8/2009 4:13:18 PM #

mani

very nice congratulations well done.

mani United States |

1/8/2009 4:48:00 PM #

Janko

Congratulaations!!!

Janko Serbia |

1/8/2009 5:15:10 PM #

Dan Atkinson

Congratulations!

Dan Atkinson United Kingdom |

1/8/2009 5:48:49 PM #

Eric

Congratulations, you definetly deserve it mate!

Eric Sweden |

1/8/2009 7:26:50 PM #

Gordon Breuer

Let me be the first one from germany to congratulate you for your MVP! As most of the others just mentioned: You deserve it! Smile

Gordon Breuer Germany |

1/8/2009 7:39:10 PM #

Webdroid

Isn't it ironic that Outlook would treat that particular email as junk mail?
Nah, just kidding... Smile Congrats.

Webdroid Canada |

1/8/2009 9:47:31 PM #

Marwan

Congrats!
you deserve it ;)

Marwan Tunisia |

1/8/2009 10:57:40 PM #

Dave White

Well its about time!  Congratulations Mads, that's great news Smile

Dave White Germany |

1/8/2009 11:21:34 PM #

Tim Stanley

Congratulations on the award and on the fine work and signifcant effort you've put into BlogEngine.Net.  It's a fine piece of work.

Tim Stanley United States |

1/9/2009 9:45:02 AM #

Mohit

Congrats Mads. You have done some wonderful things this year. You blog is full of it. So Enjoy. You deserved this.

Mohit India |

1/9/2009 11:20:10 AM #

Bryan Avery

What more can I say, well done and congratulations

Bryan Avery United Kingdom |

1/9/2009 4:11:23 PM #

Finn Christensen

Well done and indeed deserved, congratulations...

Finn Christensen Denmark |

1/9/2009 10:52:35 PM #

Alessandro

So boring.. Now I must update my del.icio.us settings for your blog and add the MVP tag.. I think you have to pay me a beer now! Laughing

Congrats Mads and many many thanks!

Alessandro Italy |

1/10/2009 3:52:31 AM #

Bill Green

Congratulations Mads!

Bill Green United States |

1/10/2009 8:36:47 AM #

Charles Nurse

Congrats - Will we see you at the summit in March?

Charles Nurse Canada |

1/11/2009 2:42:30 AM #

Amr Elsehemy

Congrats...

Amr Elsehemy Egypt |

1/12/2009 2:52:13 AM #

rtur

Great job, congratulations!

rtur United States |

1/13/2009 5:43:01 AM #

Scott

I have been wanting to get MVP for years now.  I am glad to see you were nominated and received it...

GREAT JOB MADS!!!

Now, get back tow work!! lol

I hope you are in on all the benefits of MVP...  Never having to pay for MSoft software again!

Scott United States |

1/13/2009 7:16:24 AM #

Cyril Gupta

Congratulations! Well-earned feat Smile

Cyril Gupta United States |

1/13/2009 12:40:08 PM #

Daniel Chow

Congratulations!

Daniel Chow People's Republic of China |

1/14/2009 7:14:34 PM #

Mike Borozdin

Congrats, Mads!

It's nice to see that many people whose blogs I read got the MVP award this year!

Mike Borozdin Russia |

1/18/2009 5:29:08 PM #

Victor Rivero

Congratulations Mads, you really deserve it!!

Victor Rivero Spain |

1/19/2009 9:45:40 PM #

Dejan

Congratulations, well deserved!

Dejan Macedonia (FYROM) |

1/22/2009 11:03:44 PM #

D'setiawan

very nice and congratulation for article

D'setiawan Indonesia |

1/26/2009 7:03:30 PM #

Anders Borum

That's great news - congratulations! Lots of hard work finally paid off Smile

Anders Borum Denmark |

1/31/2009 3:09:51 AM #

Paul

Hey congrats man, cheers all the best, well deserved.

Paul Canada |

2/9/2009 7:16:49 PM #

Nissan Dookeran

Congratulations! I've been loving BlogEngine.Net since I started using it in December.
You definitely deserve the award, especially for excellent implemention of such features as theming and the widgets and extensions framework.
I've never found extending an ASP.Net web application's functionality this easy before!

Nissan Dookeran United Kingdom |

3/3/2009 3:20:09 PM #

Hectic Capiznon Bloggers 2009

congrats...you deserve it..

Hectic Capiznon Bloggers 2009 Republic of the Philippines |

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