I received a really interesting E-mail this morning from Microsoft.  Here is the message:

Dear Bradley Bird,
Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2009 Microsoft® MVP Award! This award is given to exceptional technical community leaders who actively share their high quality, real world expertise with others.

WOW!  I am stoked.  I have been working for just about 3 years towards an MVP and I did it!  I was awarded for the category of Management Infrastructure. 

I would like to thank all of my colleagues who helped make this possible.  I know for sure that Mitch Garvis of the Toronto IT Professional User group and Garth Jones of the Ottawa Windows Server User Group helped in the nomination process but I was told that there were others who supported it as well.  I apologize if your names don't appear but my thanks!

My profile is below:

https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/default.aspx?viewas=public

Read the complete post at http://owsug.ca/blogs/brad/archive/2009/01/01/I-made-Microsoft-MVP-_2D00_-Management-Infrastructure.aspx