---
title: "Another one bites the bullet: Santo has left the building"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/12/31/another-one-bites-the-bullet-santo-has-left-the-building.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/12/31/another-one-bites-the-bullet-santo-has-left-the-building.html"
published: "2003-12-31T20:23:00"
updated: "2003-12-31T20:23:00"
tags: ["Blogging", "Off Topic"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "My good friend Addy Santo just blogged about himself taking the red pill . \" Finally \" is all I can really say. This guy has \" Redmond \" tattooed on his butt, figuratively speaking, and It's about time MS faced up to…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# Another one bites the bullet: Santo has left the building

By Roy Osherove December 31, 2003 In [Blogging](https://osherove.com/blog/category/blogging), [Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic)

**Historical article** · Originally published December 31, 2003; technical details may be outdated.

My good friend [Addy Santo](http://weblogs.asp.net/ASanto/) just blogged about [himself taking the red pill](http://weblogs.asp.net/ASanto/archive/2003/12/31/46969.aspx). "**Finally**" is all I can really say. This guy has "_Redmond_" tattooed on his butt, figuratively speaking, and It's about time MS faced up to the fact that, hey, they could really use someone as resourceful and creative as Addy. I'm left with a sinking sensation, however, that Addy will more or less disappear from the blogsphere as he will learn a million new things, and won't have the time to tell us about it.

As I write this, fireworks are exploding about 200 meters from me out in the main street of Flore Norway. Congratulations Addy. You could not have picked better timing :)

## More in Blogging

[All posts in Blogging](https://osherove.com/blog/category/blogging)

- Jan 9, 2004

    ### [Shame on me](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/1/9/shame-on-me.html)

- Jan 8, 2004

    ### [The FxCop Blog](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/1/8/the-fxcop-blog.html)

- Dec 24, 2003

    ### [New year's resolution: lowering the noise on the main feed (excluding this post :) )](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/12/24/new-years-resolution-lowering-the-noise-on-the-main-feed-exc.html)

- Dec 24, 2003

    ### [Visualizing blogs](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/12/24/visualizing-blogs.html)


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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

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