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The ego inflation just culminated in a near pop. The Google-O'Reilly Open Source Awards granted me the great honor of being named "Best Hacker" of the year for the work with Ruby on Rails:

I'm glad that I'll be taken a vacation after coming back from Portland. There's only so much praise you can take from smart people all week (and pretty girls on the street giving you "nice shoes" compliments).

The $5,000 price money should surely be able to buy Mary and I a drink on Maui to distance myself a bit from this surreal experience. And make me come back down to earth to realize that none of this is really about me, but more just about enabling people to experience the beauty of Ruby.

In any case, thanks so much to Google and O'Reilly for this award.

I am incredibly honored.