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Bye, bye Mr Developer Guy.

bye bye mr developer guy. Nigel Wat­son, Fin­ula Crowe and David Saf­jar sur­prised and rocked out TechEd with this catchy ditty.

Frank Arrigo, a stal­wart of Microsoft Aus­tralia is leav­ing for Microsoft HQ. He’s been kicked upstairs. He’s going to sub­vert a dif­fer­ent hier­archy. Australia’s loss, Microsoft’s gain.  Don’t panic! We have yet to see the full impact of Frank Arrigo on Microsoft. Red­mond doesn’t know what it’s imported.

Per­son­ally, I am not sad at all. Frank­arr and his fam­ily is ready for this, and he’s going to have a blast. Frank is still “with us”, just in a dif­fer­ent timezone and headzone.

Delic8genius and Andrew Par­sons cre­ated a wiki: http://www.whatdoesfrankarrigomeantome.com/wiki/

A one minute video with vari­ous people using a single word describ­ing what Frank Arrigo means to them was used a the clos­ing key­note. A labour of love, this single minute took at least 12 hours to cre­ate. Includ­ing writ­ing the music. It’s been too long between music for me.

So, good luck to all the Arrigo-nauts. Aus­tralia will quietly wait here in the clear light of the south Pacific, under­neath the South­ern Cross for your return.