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title: "Still Alive"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/6/27/still-alive.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/6/27/still-alive.html"
published: "2003-06-27T19:40:00"
updated: "2003-06-27T19:40:00"
tags: ["Off Topic"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Just wanted to say that I'm still alive, but I am in the middle of so much \"stuff\" right now, I can hardly find any time to blog about stuff. Hopefully in a few days the situation will settle down a bit and I can…"
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/"
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# Still Alive

By Roy Osherove June 27, 2003 In [Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic)

**Historical article** · Originally published June 27, 2003; technical details may be outdated.

Just wanted to say that I'm still alive, but I am in the middle of so much "stuff" right now, I can hardly find any time to blog about stuff. Hopefully in a few days the situation will settle down a bit and I can continue to spill my guts out.

Meanwhile I'm struggling with my MCP certification, job search, various articles and learning my a\*\* off trying to dive deep into the ADO.NET, the new application blocks and a new application I'm working on.

I'm still trolling .NetWeblogs, but I'll be on the reading side of things mostly. Hopefully, when I get back we'll be able to finish up te .Net Desktops contest(did I mention there are prizes?).

**quick notes:**

- FeedDemon is really cool, and no, I havn't run in to any spyware yet...
- [Google Toolbar 2.0](http://toolbar.google.com/index-beta.php) is very cool

I really miss being part of "the loop". I'll be back ASAP

## More in Off Topic

[All posts in Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic)

- Jul 1, 2003

    ### [Wasted Years](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/7/1/wasted-years.html)

- Jul 1, 2003

    ### [User Groups](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/7/1/user-groups.html)

- Jun 24, 2003

    ### [.Net Rocks Rocks, INETA, and Starting A User Group](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/6/24/net-rocks-rocks-ineta-and-starting-a-user-group.html)

- Jun 23, 2003

    ### [Stop The Silliness](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/6/23/stop-the-silliness.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.

### Sites

- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
- [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts.
- [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin.
- [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model.
- [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps.
- [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes).

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### License

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/