I've been meaning to blog on this for a couple weeks and got some time this weekend.  In short one of the cool things with writing a book is seeing it come out.  Wrox actually has an advantage here because you not only get your name, but your picture on the cover.

Well when I first signed up with Wrox, (a surprisingly long time ago) one of the questions they asked was would like a copy of my book in other languages? I said 'yeah', I thought it would be cool if it ever happened.  Well in the mail a couple weeks ago, I got an unexpected package - and there it was - Professional VB.NET 2003 in Chinese.  Here's the cover shot:

Yeah as you can tell I don't quite rank with Bill Evjen and Billy Hollis - I'm the 'other' Bill on the book... actually it's entirely possible that they just used the names that went with the first two pictures... and who knows if one of those sets of characters represents my name or maybe those are the names of the book translators...  still it's cool to have your book (and picture) show up in a language you don't speak.  By the way they don't redo the screen shots, so all the screen images are the same as the english version.  This is especially cool since I managed to work the names of my first neice and nephew into a couple of the screen shots.

By the way that little blue square, that apparently is from the university that is using the book in one of it's courses, here is a close up:

So to the University and students of Tsinghua, thanks and good luck in your endeavors.