As I mentioned here, we held a raffle earlier today to give away a Guitar Hero III guitar, complete with Bill Gates' autograph, at the Office Developers Conference 2008.  The guitar played a part in the FedEx demo during BillG's keynote kicking off the conference.   (More on that, including pics and video, here, and Jon Box's take on it here). 

The conference was just wrapping up, and at noon PST today we gathered folks together in the "interactive theater" in the exhibit hall (ok, we all crowded into a small room with curtains for walls) and drew the lucky winner from a FedEx box absolutely full of entries.  And... the winner is...

Clayton James! 

Clayton was kind enough to stick around and answer a few questions that I know are at the top of everyone's mind! 

  • Question:  What do you do? 
    • Answer: I'm a Microsoft Certified Trainer and Consultant with Data Cogs in Brisbane, Australia - a .NET and SharePoint consultancy. 
  • Question: Australia!  Do you know Frank Arrigo?
    • Answer: Yes! 
  • Question: Do you have an XBOX 360? 
    • Answer: No...
  • Question: Are you going to get one?
    • Answer: Definitely! 
  • Question:  Most importantly, are you going to actually play Guitar Hero with the BillG-signed guitar? 
    • Answer: That's a tough one... maybe once! 

We chatted a bit more, and before Clayton headed out he said he'd send a video playing with the guitar, and we'd see about getting it up on Silverlight streaming.  Smile 

We'll get a pic up of Clayton receiving his Guitar "soon". 

Finally, much sincere thanks to FedEx for helping Clayton get his new guitar shipped back home to Brisbane at no charge!  Very classy!