--- title: "My Passover Present" url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/4/13/my-passover-present.md" canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/4/13/my-passover-present.html" published: "2004-04-13T13:28:00" updated: "2004-04-13T13:28:00" tags: ["Off Topic"] author: "Roy Osherove" description: "Joy. I got for Passover (a.k.a The Jewish Christmas) from my boss a webcam. It's the third one we got. Luckily, it came with an exchange coupon, and behold, the coupon was just right for me to replace it with a CD/MP3…" 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/" --- # My Passover Present By Roy Osherove April 13, 2004 In [Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic) **Historical article** · Originally published April 13, 2004; technical details may be outdated. Joy. I got for Passover (a.k.a The Jewish Christmas) from my boss a webcam. It's the third one we got. Luckily, it came with an exchange coupon, and behold, the coupon was just right for me to replace it with a CD/MP3 diskman. My current transportation does not contain a disk player built in, hence - I was happy. I also got one of those adapters between a Diskman and the car cassette tape player. You know, they look like a cassette but they're actually transmitting the CD audio. Finally, I can drive in my car, listening to .Net Rocks .I missed the past 9 shows so all I had to do was burn them in MP3 format on one CD (they fit snuggly in, all of them) and play it in my car all the way from here to Eilat and back (Eilat is a 6 hour drive from here). Too bad I can't listen to the live shows though. It's Friday night in Israel when the shows air, which is Family Dinner night. No computer for me. Oh well, Diskman it is! One of the funniest things for me is to watch people's faces when I tell them I listen to a recorded radio show on .Net. They seem to freak out. Even some of the people here at work, which are really smart,intelligent and technology savvy people seem to think it's sorta stupid. I guess there's nothing that would change they're mind unless they hear the show with Paul Allen (father of VB) or some of the other amazing shows out there. Truly folks, You're missing a lot. [Check it out.](http://www.franklins.net/dotnetrocks.asp) ## More in Off Topic [All posts in Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic) - Apr 13, 2004 ### [When links attack](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/4/13/when-links-attack.html) - Apr 13, 2004 ### [Regulator Gift Certificates](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/4/13/regulator-gift-certificates.html) - Apr 11, 2004 ### [Non MVPs at the MVP summit - looks bad, smells bad](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/4/11/non-mvps-at-the-mvp-summit-looks-bad-smells-bad.html) - Apr 8, 2004 ### [My phone manners need work](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/4/8/my-phone-manners-need-work.html) --- ## 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). ### Social - X: https://x.com/royosherove - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/osherove/ ### Contact - Contact form: https://forms.gle/jQSx5KoXvrVA1JCK7 ### 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/