The following appeared on the Web Services Edge East 2002 web page (no longer posted):

 

Rational and IBM Award $10,000 to
The Strongest Geek!

 On the final afternoon of Web Services Edge/JDJEdge 2002 East at the Jacob Javits Center in New York, Thomas Giventer (Giventer Software Systems, Ithaca, NY), competed against fellow developers, the clock, and JDJ Editor-in-Chief Alan Williamson in a Java, XML, and Web Services technology trivia contest, and won the $10,000 grand prize, awarded by Rational and IBM! Six qualifying round winners each received a copy of Rational® XDE™ Professional and IBM WebSphere® Studio Application Developer software. Will you be the next lucky competitor, when the Weakest Geek competition returns at Web Services Edge/JDJEdge 2002 West in San Jose this October? Check our site frequently for updates on how you can join in on the fun and the prizes!  

 

Ed note: The name of the contest was a play on the British TV quiz show "The Weakest Link". Still, I'm not sure I really want to be known as the "Weakest Geek"! At least  the headline got changed to the Strongest Geek.