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Today was the first day of the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Summit. Before everything kicked off we went for a walk around Seattle.

We found this really cool magic shop. Check out the Elvis Zoltar inside...

I managed to blag a visit to Alan's room. His hotel room is rather high, with some nice views.

Overhead view of the monorail

Seattle skyline, with clouds

Gathering for the opening session. I've never been to one of these before, but the thing that struck me was just how many MVPs there are. This is a big affair. And there are people from all over the world.

This was the gathering before we went in for dinner.

The food, and the company, was excellent. On the way out I grabbed a picture of the view from the conference centre.

Comments

[JDog]

How did you become an MVP ?

[Gongawa]

JDawg,
Might I interject? Years of toil and hard graft on Microsoft's behalf...Am I right?

[Rob]

I'm not sure about the years of toil. I'm not that big on toil. I think it originally started because of my involvement with the Imagine Cup (the Hull team came third in the world final in 2003 and we've won the UK final three times since then) and helping to set up the first .NET based masters course.

I've produced MSDN articles, presented sessions at Microsoft conferences and writen books about their technology, which I think keeps me in the game.

[JDog]

Thanks for the info, seems like it'd be tricky to become an MVP.