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To (mis)quote Bruce Willis in the best Christmas movie ever:

NOW I HAVE A POWERSHELL MVP AWARD HO-HO-HO

Of course John McClane wrote that on the shirt of a dead terrorist from whom he'd stoken a sub machine gun with which to liberate Nakatomi Plaza, so it's not really a good analogy to use here, but hey...!

I'm really very pleased to have been selected by Microsoft for their Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Award for PowerShell. It's a genuine honour to be included in the group of PowerShell MVPs.

There are a couple of reasons that I was so pleased to receive the news of my award. Firstly, PowerShell is a great technology that has transformed the way I work with Microsoft products so much for the better - I simply enjoy using it. Secondly, the PowerShell community is fantastic! I've had the pleasure of meeting or chatting online with some really good people and collaborating with them, and I look forward to doing so more in the future.

Since the news spread throughout the community, I've had a number of messages of congratulations and support via Twitter, Facebook and email from a number of existing MVPs, other PowerShell guys, Microsofties and others, which have been much appreciated. I get a lot of inspiration and motivation from the people on this list and the rest of the community. A big "thank you" for those messages to (in no particular order):
Hal Rottenberg (@halr9000)
Joel Bennett (@Jaykul) - congratulations on your award too!
Shay Levy (@ShayLevy)
Aleksandar Nikolić (@alexandair)
Marco Shaw (@MarcoShaw)
Jonathan Walz (@jonwalz)
Jonathan Medd (@jonathanmedd)
Richard Siddaway
Dmitry Sotnikov (@DSotnikov)
Alan Renouf (@alanrenouf)
/\/\o\/\/ (@PowerShellGuy)
Lance Robinson (@lmrobins)
David Moravec (@makovec)
Jacob Saaby Nielsen (@ThisIsOurs_info)
Mark Stang (@stangm)
Matt Johnson (@mwjcomputing)
Kevin Ball (@zbnet)
David Johnston (@djohnston)
Adam Bell (@leadfollowmove)
Georgina Lewis (@GeorginaLLewis)
Andrew Fryer (@DeepFat)
Alex Ball (@Alex_Ball)
Tony Sufcliffe (@tonys2009)
Dave Clark (@djclark46)
Jeffery Hicks (@JeffHicks)
Andrew Westgarth (@apwestgarth)

David Moravec summed up on Twitter pretty much how I feel about all the folks who are active in the PowerShell community - it's a great group to be part of:

As an aside, with the "long tail" of e-commerce, you can buy practically anything online, including the "now I have a machine gun" sweatshirt. :-)