Comments on: Are you a vExpert?

By: Internet Marketing IQ

Internet Marketing IQ — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:15:03 +0000

one can not be expert at everything can they?

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By: Eric Sloof

Eric Sloof — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:56:00 +0000

“vExpert nomination is also application form. Don’t make others do the work for you, lazy bum! Nominate yourself. You know better than others what you’ve been up to.” says JT.

By: Francis Bandi

Francis Bandi — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 14:47:08 +0000

Hi Mike…

I just nominated your name… You are awesome… and indirectly we have benefitted lot from your work…
My 1st stop for all my VMware doubts is your site…

Thanks for being generously sharing the stuff free…

By: Stuart McHugh

Stuart McHugh — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 14:36:08 +0000

Mike,

I’ve nominated you now! No probs!
You have a cracking website, and for me the most useful thing has been your great guides you have written! Keep up the good work!!

By: Chris Huss

Chris Huss — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 11:46:26 +0000

Mike,
There’s no doubt you deserve the vExpert title with all of your contributions to our society over the years.
Additionally, I think that all of the VCIs out there should be grandfathered into the vExpert title…since we are out there every week, preaching the VMware word…and helping students each week.

Chris

By: noen

noen — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 09:59:10 +0000

I do not know you, but you got my vote.
But please , leave the gurus alone.

vExpert < vGuru

By: I_Balmer

I_Balmer — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 09:33:25 +0000

Nominated!!!

Being a brit, I agree with your sentiment on these things. But I’ve nominated you also, but only for vExpert – I couldn’t find the vLegend button.

A small thank you for all your work over the years – which makes all our lives more easier.

By: Jason Boche

Jason Boche — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 05:04:27 +0000

I submitted an entry for you the moment the submission form went live.

By: Mike Laverick

Mike Laverick — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 23:37:24 +0000

Antiques Road show in the US! I imagine that’s quite different from the British version. In the British one people bring the prized possessions clearly hoping to find out that they have undiscovered Picasso, whilst at the same time affecting a stance of “where not interested in its value…” er, “except for insurance purposes”. You see their prized tat is in on moment an unsell-able family heirloom until they discover it’s worth £1m. It’s quite illustration of the British preoccupation and embarrassment of money and wealth.

At the same time people who watch the show – get a perverse pleasure when someone brings in something bought in an charity shop or worst still an auction house – and they have convinced themselves they later day Lovejoy (Lovejoy was an awful 80′s light drama about a roguish antiques expert… hey, its what pass for glamour in the UK. You had Dallas and we had Lovejoy, nuff said). These people are convinced they have some fantastic item of value – only to discover that’s it some knocked off junk from Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. “Yes”, says the expert “what you have here is an excellent example of the kind tacky trash that was mass-produced by lumpen proles the North-East in the late half of the 19th Century when items of Chinese feel were in regarded as sophisticated – sadly your item is far from such a state…” The big smiles drifts away slowly from the hapless punters face, and we chortle with glee. I think the Germans have a word for (don’t they always!) it is called “schedenfraude”

Finally, the other game I like to play is spotting recently released criminals who turn up at the Antiques Roadshow hoping to case up some potential “swag” for their next “job” – and take the said perlonned booty to their lock-up down Heathrow way. Unfortunately, these criminal master minds forget that A. Everyone will recognise the unique one-in-a-million Ming Dynasty vase as the stolen goods it is. B. Their “boot race” (cockney rhyming slang for face) has also been on National TV shortly before said items were plundered.

If you think I’m joking it has happened – such are the joys later afternoons on Sunday with Antiques Roadshow, just before Songs of Praise.

The United Kingdom: You don’t have to be mad to live here, but it does help, and should be mandatory.