Upgrade: Found at at TechEd that Christoph Schittko has been offered the blue kool aide and he drank it down. WTG! You'll be a great asset to the Central Region's Architecture Team (he's staying Texas).
Downgrade: One less XML MVP in the world soon. Bummer.
Upgrade: Doug Seven has also returned to Service with the company too.
Downgrade: Wonder if he and Donny will be updating their book for ASP.NET 2.0...