Thanks for your positive comments - especially from people respected within the SQL community.  Although my blogs are littered with my personal motivation for walking the MCA road, perhaps a post which is a clearer reasoning checklist is in order - it should even crystallize some of my own thoughts on the matter from a first-person perspective.  I'll add it to my 'List of things I want to blog about' and post it soon.  It will at least come after at least one article that I have promised to Steve which I think I should get to since he spends so much time sourcing content for us - and I need to earn a bit of SQL street cred!

I don't know how Steve manages to churn out a daily editorial... I wouldn't get any other work done.

Simon