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Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld Video #2

I'll let it speak for itself... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBWPf1BWtkw

Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld Video (#1)

The first of the much talked about Seinfeld video for Microsoft can be seen at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uz6amk3P-hY Not much of a message, but you'll enjoy it if you are a Seinfeld fan. Gates plays a great straight man as well.

It Would be Even Funnier, if it Wasn't so Sad and True

Willy Tay sent me a link to this Hug a Developer video as an interesting tangent to my post on software development outsourcing and failures. As you watch the video you will laugh at the humorous portrayal of sad situations, that we have all lived through...

Outsourcing Software Development - You Get What You Pay For

This post is excerpting / paraphrasing a section that appeared in our July 2008 newsletter . I'd really love to hear your thoughts on this. Over the past months, I have been approached by several different companies to help them clean up someone else...

blogged.com ?!

A few weeks ago I received an email (from a form on my blog) from Amy at blogged.com: Our editors recently reviewed your blog and have given it an 8.0 score out of (10) in the Technology/Computers category of Blogged.com. This is quite an achievement...

Renaissance July 2008 Newsletter now available

The July 2008 edition of the Renaissance Computer Systems Ltd. newsletter is now available at http://www.renaissance.co.il/newsletters/NewsJuly08.pdf This newsletter discusses one of the projects we've just completed and discusses a recurring phenomenon...

Bill Gates and Microsoft - Historical Moments

The big news in the software industry this past month has been the departure of Bill Gates from involvement in day to day activity at Microsoft. The following two videos, while not necessarily humorous, should still bring a smile to your face. They may...

Cool Elections Video Search Gadget - From Google

In my previous post, I referred to a post by my friend David Sarna, the GoogleGazer . If you are at all interested in staying abreast of what Google is up (and who isn't ?!) you need to subscribe to this blog. In his latest post, Google Shows How Life...
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Principle or Price ?

In an long post entitled Get Out the Tums: Life Beyond the Desktop Browser Gives Agita to Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo the GoogleGazer offers an interesting analysis of the changes currently underway in the computer industry. While the blog post in a...
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Suddenly in Seattle ...

This week I unexpectedly found myself at Microsoft in Seattle. I was contracted by Microsoft Learning as a Subject Matter Expert to do some work on a couple of their upcoming certification exams for developers. It was my first time engaging with Microsoft...
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