April 01st is always a big day for me, in terms of personally and technically. 1st priority is my daughter's birtday and next (not the least) is MVP award renewal. This year (again) I have got it for 3rd time and it states: Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2008 Microsoft® MVP...
I just came back from Friday prayer, my kids are out with their Aunt (probably at McDonald's), my wife's in the kitchen prepping something up for lunch, so I have the study room all to myself. I went in, and instead of firing up my laptop, I logged on to my desktop, which I don't usually...
First a personal piece of information: my MVP status has been renewed! Wooohooo! I'm happy :-) Now for the real stuff; the other day I was trying to uninstall WDS (Windows Desktop Search) and since I did not find the uninstaller in 'Add or Remove Programs' I had to do it manually. I found an entry on...
If any of you is interested in what BillG had to say in the MVP Global Summit in Seattle, here's the transcript. http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/billg/speeches/2007/03-13MVPSummit.mspx Now, here's a guy who actually understood what Bill was saying (too rich for my blood). http://www.theserverside...
This summit has been tremendously successful and lots of fun. I got to meet some wonderful people, Billy Hollis (we had a lengthy but lovely chat over lunch, thank you Billy!!), Shaun Walker (the founder of DotNetNuke) and Sean O'Driscoll (the MVP boss of them all). I also got to establish a connection...
Ok, lets see. I left Kuwait at 9am. 7 hours later I was in Heathrow. Left London at 6pm Kuwait time and more than 10 hours later... I'm in Seattle. After a total of over 18 hours of fly time!!! I'm here to attend the MVP Global Summit 2007. I am exhausted to say the least. I flew British Airways all...
I am very anxious to be going to the 2007 Global Summit. The Global Summit will take place March 12-15, 2007 in Seattle at the Washington State Convention Center and at Microsoft Corporation’s main campus in Redmond, Washington. Bill Gates will deliver the keynote!! Yes, I'm gonna meet Bill Gates!!!...
A couple of my friends just became MVPs. I would like to congratulate them all on their great achievements and wish them the best in their future endeavors. One word of advice guys, enjoy it as much as you can, you never know what'll happen next year ;-) Fadi Atteya - MVP Microsoft Office SharePoint...
I'm getting older. Today I was notified about my MVP status. So I still an MVP for all the 2007. What can I say?, just thanks to all the people that has been so nice with me. This year I will keep working with Baja California communities here in Mexico and hope we can have new MVPs in this area. Thanks...
Omar and I are attending the Microsoft MVP MEA Open Days 2006 in Antalya, Turkey. I have to say, if there is one thing I've learned so far, it's that when you give freely to the community the community will give back to you, one way or the other. I really look forward to going back to Kuwait and work...