I've done my part to vote. I did have to decide between a handful of people, but I made my nomination.
Brian Goralczyk Phone 574-643-1144 Email bgoralc...@gmail.com On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Doug Blair <d...@blairing.com> wrote: > ARSlist readers, > > DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL WITH A NOMINATION, but do keep reading! > > I was just filtering through a few thousand emails at lunch today and the two > sent by Dan Bloom and LJ Longwing struck a chord. > > We read this mailing list every day, and (probably) search the archives every > so often, looking for that elusive bit of knowledge, configuration, > programming technique or someone else's experience with an extremely > complicated subject. There is too much to know and not enough brain space for > any single person to know all of it. We must share what we have learned just > to get through the day. The things I have learned on the list have saved me > MONTHS of effort! > > There is a dedicated group of generous people who over the past year (and > past couple of decades) have freely shared what they know so that we can do > our jobs better. Participation is time consuming, frustrating, detailed and > usually thankless. > > Usually thankless, but not now. > > Would you take a few minutes to think about the number of times you have > learned something from the ARSLIST in the past year? > > "How-to-do-it?" > "Yes, that's a bug." > "No, we fixed it this way." > "Here's another approach." > "We have a similar symptom, but a different cause." > "They misspelled the doxumentation." > "We tested this product and it's great." > "We tested this product and it sucks!" > "Of course, there's another way to do it!" > "You can remember the 60's? Then you weren't really there, were you?" > > If any of these happened to you (except for that last one) because of > something you read on the ARSLIST, now's the time to say "Thanks!," by > nominating the person for the Most Valuable Contributor to the ARSLIST. > > There's also an award for the BMC Software Employee who has gone "Beyond the > Call Of Duty." > > DO NOT reply to this email with a nomination. Read Dan Bloom's August 3rd > post earlier in this thread for complete details, or just send a private > email to d...@wwrug.com. > > > > Doug > > -- > Doug Blair > d...@blairing.com > +1 224-558-5462 > > 200 North Arlington Heights Road > Arlington Heights, Illinois 60004 > > > BMC/Remedy Skilled Professional > ITILv3 > > _______________________________________________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org > attend wwrug12 www.wwrug12.com ARSList: "Where the Answers Are" _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug12 www.wwrug12.com ARSList: "Where the Answers Are"
