- Posted by sondreb on March 7, 2008
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Last night, Microsoft arranged the Heroes Happen Here release party for Visual Studio 2008, Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008.
As a part of the event, the National Broadcasting Channel (NRK) wanted to make a story on one of the nominated candidates and they choose me to be part of this. NRK came home to my apartment to see some of the things I'm doing with a digital and automated home (see news report links at the bottom).
This took longer than expected, so I didn't make it to the party in time to receive my award which was announced by Mike Neill, who is general manager of Virtualization at Microsoft who came all the way from Redmond. So the event managers had to re-arrange a bit on the program, and they got Lene Alexandra (she even has a blog) to give me the award before she held her concert.
It's a great honor to receive such an incredible award, Geek of the Year, and I want to thank everyone who nominated me for this award. Cheers and thanks to everyone!
I was of course not the only winner of awards, many of the other winners are great individuals whom I'm proud do know from work (Jonas Follesø!) and the Microsoft community around Norway:
- Geek of the Year: Sondre Bjellås, Capgemini
- Custom Built PC: Einar Roland, DataGuard
- Best Server Room: Daniel Estefanos, Statens innkrevingssentral
- MSDN Honor Price: Jonas Follesø, Capgemini
- Best DBA: Jørn Aakre, Crayon
- Best IT-tech: Ragnar Harper, Crayon
- Best Trainer: Kristine Kjenes, Crayon
- Cutting Edge Company: StatoilHydro
- Problem Solver: Stein Morten Rustad, Lindbak Retail Systems AS
- MSDN Guru: Anders Nordås, Storebrand
- TechNet Honor Price: Olav Tvedt, Tvedt Consulting
- Best Home Network: Holger Sommer, Visma retail
- Colleague of the Year: Ole Jørgen Jacobsen, Vivento AS
Surely hope that all of these winners can be inspirations for everyone else to contribute even more to the Microsoft community in Norway.
Special Thanks to:
Capgemini
Norwegian .NET User Group
Microsoft Developer and Platform Team (Rune Grothaug!)
Microsoft Regional Director Program
News Reports:
NRK Kveldsnytt (video)
http://www1.nrk.no/nett-tv/indeks/124838
"Årets norske geek er kåret"
http://www.digi.no/php/art.php?id=513730
"Sondre er nerd"
http://www.nrk.no/nyheter/distrikt/sorlandet/1.5042257
"MS Bits and Boobs" (video)
http://www.idg.no/computerworld/article90153.ece
"Venndøl ble årets nerd"
http://www.fvn.no/nyheter/kristiansand/article563862.ece
"Smarte menn er sexy"
http://www.seher.no/php/art.php?id=513699
"Sondre Bjellås kåret til Årets Geek av Microsoft Norge"
http://www.nnug.no/Siste-nytt/AretsGeek/
"Nerde oscar vinnere"
http://www.hegnar.no/it/article258712.ece
NRK P3 nyhetene, 7. mars kl 08:30
http://nettradio.nrk.no/default.php?kanal=p3