I don't know what I did specifically to deserve it, but thanks to Microsoft for sending me a Microsoft Award for Customer Excellence (ACE) for Visual Studio 2005, otherwise known as the Ship-It Award.

It arrived today. A nice square Lucite cube. A bit smaller than I expected, but nice nonetheless.

The funnest part, oddly, was opening it. It came enclosed in three nested boxes. That's three times better than if it just came wrapped in one box.