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title: "Regulator Gift Certificates"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/4/13/regulator-gift-certificates.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/4/13/regulator-gift-certificates.html"
published: "2004-04-13T13:38:00"
updated: "2004-04-13T13:38:00"
tags: ["Off Topic"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "[Note: shameless plug ahead] Speaking of presents, one of the things I changed in The Regulator 2.0 was the “Donate” link. It used to point to a Paypal account, but it seems that PayPal sucks when you're overseas. No…"
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# Regulator Gift Certificates

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**Historical article** · Originally published April 13, 2004; technical details may be outdated.

_\[Note: shameless plug ahead\]_

Speaking of presents, one of the things I changed in [The Regulator 2.0](http://regulator.sourceforge.net/) was the “Donate” link. It used to point to a Paypal account, but it seems that PayPal sucks when you're overseas. No Israel bank accounts allowed. bah.

So I added a link instead to anyone who wants, to send me an [Amazon Gift Certificate](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/gc-email-order1) over to [my contact form](https://osherove.com/contact) . Yeah, I can't even have an Amazon Honor System, because Amazon does not work with out of seas accounts neither. So, an Amazon Gift Certificate was my best bet. This way I get to buy books that help me learn more, out of something that I created by reading other books :) ain't that a cool little development program?

## More in Off Topic

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

- Apr 14, 2004

    ### [When friends show off](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/4/14/when-friends-show-off.html)

- Apr 13, 2004

    ### [When links attack](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/4/13/when-links-attack.html)

- Apr 13, 2004

    ### [My Passover Present](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/4/13/my-passover-present.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)


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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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- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
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- [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.
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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/