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title: "Sign of life"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/2/4/sign-of-life.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/2/4/sign-of-life.html"
published: "2004-02-04T23:53:00"
updated: "2004-02-04T23:53:00"
tags: ["Off Topic"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "No. I'm not dead. I was just taking a few days off to spend some quality time with my wife. Expect to see some more posts in the very near future about: .Net Rocks live The IVBUG caching lecture The best Unit testing…"
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/"
---

# Sign of life

By Roy Osherove February 4, 2004 In [Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic)

**Historical article** · Originally published February 4, 2004; technical details may be outdated.

No. I'm not dead. I was just taking a few days off to spend some quality time with my wife. Expect to see some more posts in the very near future about:

- .Net Rocks live
- The [IVBUG](http://www.renaissance.co.il/ivbug) caching lecture
- The best Unit testing framework in town
- Dino
- Site2RSS
- Homing in on a laptop

_**Keyboard hint of the day:**_

_press \[Start\], let go and then \[tab\]. Where is your focus?_

_(Thanks to my wife for this one)_

## More in Off Topic

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

- Feb 6, 2004

    ### [Mortal sin #2: Information hoarding](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/2/6/mortal-sin-2-information-hoarding.html)

- Feb 5, 2004

    ### [Mortal coding sin: programming in your mother tongue](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/2/5/mortal-coding-sin-programming-in-your-mother-tongue.html)

- Jan 28, 2004

    ### [Leaving Norway](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/1/28/leaving-norway.html)

- Jan 26, 2004

    ### [Fried eye anyone?](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/1/26/fried-eye-anyone.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/