I made MVP!!

I was delighted to find in my email inbox this message from Microsoft...

Dear Owen Hewitt,

Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2007 Microsoft^® MVP Award!

The Microsoft MVP Award is our way of saying thank you and to honor and support the significant contributions you make to communities worldwide. As a recipient of Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professional award, you join an elite group of technical community leaders from around the world who foster the free and objective exchange of knowledge by actively sharing your real world expertise with users and Microsoft. Microsoft salutes all MVPs for promoting the spirit of community and enhancing people’s lives and the industry’s success everyday. To learn more about the MVP Program, visit: http://www.microsoft.com/mvp.

Your extraordinary efforts in Windows - PC Games technical communities during the past year are greatly appreciated.

I would like to publicly thank Hal for the nomination of this award, I am deeply humbled by this!

[EDIT]: I would like to also congratulate Joel DeYoung, Norman Blackburn, and Dudley Henriques who made it in for 2007 as well!