Mark Raming - In absentia, for climbing the Himalayas instead of being here David Moskowitz - for not holding a BOF on how to be an author Aidon Jennery - for talking about explosives being mostly made from organic materials while our luggage was being searched, and they were examining bars of chocolate. Matt Osborn - for being the only one who would spell it out when Aidon and I "Came out" on the list. Paul Giangarra - for not only not knowing about Kimberly and Aidon at the beginning of the week, but for being the only one left at the conference who still didn't know when Wayne announced it on Thursday. Noel Bergman - for prodding Wayne to make the announcement in front of 400 of our closest friends Evan Bergman ... nuff said? Walter - for chickening out ... he looked at the weather and left! Karen W - for being the "other woman" in the hot tub David Brosius Huber Bobrow Jennery - for putting up with the BIGGEST collection of geeks on the planet Simon Roberts - for coming up with the only funny joke about JSPs..."A servlet and a JSP walk into a bar ... and the bartender says "sorry, we don't serve pages"" Holley Davis - For wearing sunglasses in the hot tub and swimming pool Bryan Z - For spending more time all week on his PIMP Ware presentation than the ones Wayne put in the brochure Paul van Keep - for having the weirdest eyeball dance ever Kimberly - for having her sister catch her on AIM, because her mother called her, to ask her to IM me to tell me to turn on my cell phone - and it worked. Dion - For having an American accent that is as difficult to understand as his regular one. Peggy - for ALMOST recognizing what she liked in the shop when we gave it to her Rick - for creaming young David in the snowball fight Mike Bowler - presentation geek award: for thinking his keyboard was broken because his numlock key was pressed Jeroen - for teaching David how to say his name: "yer-oon" "your what?" Kelvin - for requiring two laptops for his presentations Wayne - for bringing back the guest of honor "baaaaaaahhhhh!" Mike Brown - for remembering his room #1741 because it's 2 prime numbers The 2002 Geek Award of the year, and the first to have it's own .avi produced: Mike Paolini - for inventing the XML dance ... also known as Xxxxxxxxx Markup Language!