Suddenly I'm glad I wasn't given the Microsoft MVP award again this year.
I was thinking of getting around to updating the blog site, taking down the MVP logo and what have you, when suddenly I found a link in the newsgroups to a couple of very interesting articles on the sunbelt weblog and the weblog of MVP paperghost.
Words fail me.
I want to thank all the people at Microsoft and all the MVPs I've come to know over the 8 years that I've been a MVP for a great time, but I have to say that all of a sudden I'm actually glad I wasn't offered the award this time around, because I don't think my morals would allow me to accept if a spyware peddlar meets the standards these days. I can only assume that this is a horrific mistake or a sick joke.
I know that all the people at Microsoft and all the MVPs I've spoken to over the years have some of the highest standards of any group that I've ever associated with, which makes this latest thing a real kick in the teeth for the program and it's current members.
So long, MVP program, and thanks for all the fish.