The mail that got lost

Jan 7, 2009

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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Comments (43) -

Scott Salyer
Scott Salyer United States
1/7/2009 4:59:57 PM #

Congrats! You definitely deserve it.

Davide Espertini
Davide Espertini Italy
1/7/2009 5:30:05 PM #

Congrats!

Justin Barnes
Justin Barnes United States
1/7/2009 6:26:55 PM #

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

Muhammad Mosa
Muhammad Mosa Egypt
1/7/2009 6:31:53 PM #

Congrats Mads, it took so long Smile

Frederik Vig
Frederik Vig Norway
1/7/2009 6:47:31 PM #

Congrats! Smile

Ben Amada
Ben Amada United States
1/7/2009 6:50:47 PM #

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

Haacked
Haacked United States
1/7/2009 7:09:23 PM #

Congrats, it's well deserved.

Adam
Adam United States
1/7/2009 7:38:42 PM #

Congratulations, Mads!

Vladimír Dědek
Vladimír Dědek Czech Republic
1/7/2009 8:44:51 PM #

Congratulation!

Clarence Klopfstein
Clarence Klopfstein United States
1/7/2009 9:08:15 PM #

Certainly deserve it.

Congrats.

Mark Johnston
Mark Johnston Australia
1/7/2009 10:01:37 PM #

Well done mate.

Mike Houston
Mike Houston United States
1/7/2009 10:05:35 PM #

Very well deserved!!

StevenMcD
StevenMcD South Africa
1/8/2009 5:03:56 AM #

Congrats man! Well deserved!

Christian Sparre
Christian Sparre Denmark
1/8/2009 5:21:23 AM #

Congratulations Mads. Well deserved! Smile

Mark Kordon
Mark Kordon Denmark
1/8/2009 5:56:28 AM #

Congratulations!! Well done..

mani
mani United States
1/8/2009 7:13:18 AM #

very nice congratulations well done.

Janko
Janko Serbia and Montenegro (Former)
1/8/2009 7:48:00 AM #

Congratulaations!!!

Dan Atkinson
Dan Atkinson United Kingdom
1/8/2009 8:15:10 AM #

Congratulations!

Eric
Eric Sweden
1/8/2009 8:48:49 AM #

Congratulations, you definetly deserve it mate!

Gordon Breuer
Gordon Breuer Germany
1/8/2009 10:26:50 AM #

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

Webdroid
Webdroid Canada
1/8/2009 10:39:10 AM #

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

Marwan
Marwan Tunisia
1/8/2009 12:47:31 PM #

Congrats!
you deserve it ;)

Dave White
Dave White Germany
1/8/2009 1:57:40 PM #

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

Tim Stanley
Tim Stanley United States
1/8/2009 2:21:34 PM #

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.

Mohit
Mohit India
1/9/2009 12:45:02 AM #

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

Bryan Avery
Bryan Avery United Kingdom
1/9/2009 2:20:10 AM #

What more can I say, well done and congratulations

Finn Christensen
Finn Christensen Denmark
1/9/2009 7:11:23 AM #

Well done and indeed deserved, congratulations...

Alessandro
Alessandro Italy
1/9/2009 1:52:35 PM #

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!

Bill Green
Bill Green United States
1/9/2009 6:52:31 PM #

Congratulations Mads!

Charles Nurse
Charles Nurse Canada
1/9/2009 11:36:47 PM #

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

Amr Elsehemy
Amr Elsehemy Egypt
1/10/2009 5:42:30 PM #

Congrats...

rtur
rtur United States
1/11/2009 5:52:13 PM #

Great job, congratulations!

Scott
Scott United States
1/12/2009 8:43:01 PM #

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!

Cyril Gupta
Cyril Gupta United States
1/12/2009 10:16:24 PM #

Congratulations! Well-earned feat Smile

Daniel Chow
Daniel Chow People's Republic of China
1/13/2009 3:40:08 AM #

Congratulations!

Mike Borozdin
Mike Borozdin Russia
1/14/2009 10:14:34 AM #

Congrats, Mads!

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

Victor Rivero
Victor Rivero Spain
1/18/2009 8:29:08 AM #

Congratulations Mads, you really deserve it!!

Dejan
Dejan Macedonia (FYROM)
1/19/2009 12:45:40 PM #

Congratulations, well deserved!

D'setiawan
D'setiawan Indonesia
1/22/2009 2:03:44 PM #

very nice and congratulation for article

Anders Borum
Anders Borum Denmark
1/26/2009 10:03:30 AM #

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

Paul
Paul Canada
1/30/2009 6:09:51 PM #

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

Nissan Dookeran
Nissan Dookeran United Kingdom
2/9/2009 10:16:49 AM #

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!

Hectic Capiznon Bloggers 2009
Hectic Capiznon Bloggers 2009 Philippines
3/3/2009 6:20:09 AM #

congrats...you deserve it..

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