Top vBlog 2015 Voting Open - Payback Time!

Time of the year when Eric Siebert of vsphere-land.com fame opens up the Top Virtualization Blog voting on his portal. Needless to say that each blogger listed in this ballot has spent hours of his personal time to give you content which has helped you in some way or form. Today, it's the payback time. Your vote is how you can appreciate the work these bloggers have done and the good thing is that it takes just about 2 minutes to caste it.

I have done my bit by voting for my favourite blogs which have helped me come out of difficult situations while implementing VMware products, helped me with my certification stints, gave me a scoop of how things work behind the scenes and most importantly help me understand how products come together to make a solution and how a solution helps solve business issues. In essence it has helped me develop as a Techie and as a Professional. 

Once again thank you to everyone who is in my TOP 10 LIST.

Two Big Results Today - Stepped into Fatherhood & Jumped into TOP 30 of TOP vBLOG 2014

Their are only a few dates which are close to my heart & 27th March 2014 has definitely taken the Top Spot in the list. 

It's 2 in the night and I have already changed 5 diapers in the past 3 hours. The Demand in terms of vCOps in way higher than the allocation ;-). I am glad that my wife appreciates me doing so, but in the corner of my heart I know that this effort is minuscule in front of the mammoth task of carrying a baby for close to an year and then giving birth. Well, I don't have the words to express the entire experience. But I am ECSTATIC to share that we were promoted from the role of Husband & Wife to PARENTS. 

That's the FIRST BIG RESULT, I think the biggest we could have ever think of. It's a healthy baby boy & both the mother and child are doing fine. 

Of-course in all this I had no chance to check the results of the TOP vBLOG 2014 on vsphere-land.com. I did get an opportunity to peek into the podcast and I am absolutely delightful as a number of people I voted for are in the Top 25. I was not expecting to be there in the Top 25 list as I need to BLOG my ASS out to come close to the vBlog-Mafia who dish out fantastic blog posts one after the another. Anyways it was a great result and thanks once again to VEEAM for sponsoring the event and Eric Siebert for doing what he has year after year.. I can see this effort coming close to carrying a delivering a baby ;-) but yeah my Wifey still wins hands down :-)

While I was getting ready to sleep (SLEEP LOL.. What's that after a KID), I thought I would sleep but yeah, God had some other plans... Some more diapers and a few more messages and phone calls... I saw a Whatsapp IM from my buddy Lior Kamrat about him securing the #84th rank in his first year of blogging at imallvirtual.com. He is my vCOps Hero and I learn a lot from him (Fantastic Guy).

In a few seconds I was mentioned in a tweet which looked like this:-

That's the SECOND BIG RESULT. Needless to say that I jumped onto Eric's website to check if that was not a typo by +abhilash hb. It was TRUE.. I actually jumped from the 151st spot last year to the 28th SPOT and landed in the TOP 30. It was the jump of 123 places.

A BIG THANK YOU TO ALL WHO VOTED FOR VXPRESS & OTHER BLOGGERS IN THE COMMUNITY. 

I started writing at 2 AM and now its 9 AM here. I guess by now you know why it took me 7 hours to write this post...

OOOPPS... Time for another diaper change!! See you around!!