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title: "I've been contacted..."
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/6/2/ive-been-contacted.md"
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published: "2004-06-02T03:23:00"
updated: "2004-06-02T03:23:00"
tags: ["Off Topic"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "I always thought I was a pretty regular guy, You know - get up, go to work, come home, watch TV dude. But lately I've been getting contacted by all sorts of very high ranking people. And by high ranking I mean really…"
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# I've been contacted...

By Roy Osherove June 2, 2004 In [Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic)

**Historical article** · Originally published June 2, 2004; technical details may be outdated.

I always thought I was a pretty regular guy, You know - get up, go to work, come home, watch TV dude. But lately I've been getting contacted by all sorts of very high ranking people. And by high ranking I mean **really** high ranking. Royalty ranking.  Why Just this morning I was contacted by _Daniel Kabila_ the son of the late Democratic Republic of Congo President _Laurent Desire Kabila ._ He needed my help with some money problem he had.

But that's not all. Just a few days ago, _another_ royalty from Congo, this time a respected leader who is fleeting the country, asked for my help with some financial matters (I cannot say say who and what - I promised!).

And here I thought the world was a cold lonely place. Obviously lots of royalty are developers in their hearts. They have read my weblog and decided that who else but a developer from Israel would be able to help them. Sure, I can see that. In fact, I'm having some issues with my mortgage and am seriously considering contacting some poor sap in.. I don't know, Spain? to help me with them. I'm sure he could help.

## More in Off Topic

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

- Jun 2, 2004

    ### [Worst UI ever?](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/6/2/worst-ui-ever.html)

- Jun 2, 2004

    ### [In search of Bingo](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/6/2/in-search-of-bingo.html)

- May 29, 2004

    ### [Typical Norway Scenario](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/5/29/typical-norway-scenario.html)

- May 27, 2004

    ### [\[OT\] Why you should never put your picture on the Internet](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/5/27/ot-why-you-should-never-put-your-picture-on-the-internet.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/