--- title: "MS Digital City, and a funny amateur video commercial" url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2005/6/7/ms-digital-city-and-a-funny-amateur-video-commercial.md" canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2005/6/7/ms-digital-city-and-a-funny-amateur-video-commercial.html" published: "2005-06-07T15:14:00" updated: "2005-06-07T15:14:00" tags: ["Off Topic"] author: "Roy Osherove" description: "This Thursday and Friday Microsoft is holding it's \" Digital City \" conference in Tel Aviv Israel. There are many gadgets and gizmos shown there. I'm also presenting there 3 sessions of 30 minutes (err, same session 3…" 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/" --- # MS Digital City, and a funny amateur video commercial By Roy Osherove June 7, 2005 In [Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic) **Historical article** · Originally published June 7, 2005; technical details may be outdated. This Thursday and Friday Microsoft is holding it's "[Digital City](http://digitalcity.co.il/)" conference in Tel Aviv Israel. There are many gadgets and gizmos shown there. I'm also presenting there 3 sessions of 30 minutes (err, same session 3 times). I'll be replacing Yosi Taguri's presentations which will be about the Tablet PC and Digital Ink future lifestyle. In short - I'll be showing lots of really cool and funny demos of stuff you can do with Ink and various MS research applications on a tablet. It's pretty fun and gave me the chance to actually use a tablet (I don't own one..). I'm actually getting 3 different tablets for the presentations and I've been carrying one around all this week, using it in meetings and such. I have to say - it's growing on me. There are various usability points that make it very nice to work with, though my hand writing is sometimes too awful to recognize as text. still some way to go on this area, but I definitely see potential there. I present at these times: **Digital Ink and Tablet PC future** Thursday: 12:30 - 13:00                   18:00 - 18:30 Friday:    10:30 - 11:00 speaking of which, Microsoft is holding a digital video commercial contest as part of this shindig. There weren't a lot of entries so far, but one of them was really funny. Check it out; it's called "[Laser Pets](http://www.pc.co.il/digitalcity/ProjectPage.aspx?projectID=36)" :-) ## More in Off Topic [All posts in Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic) - Jun 17, 2005 ### [\[OT \]It's Yamaka pattern time!](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/6/17/ot-its-yamaka-pattern-time.html) - Jun 13, 2005 ### [In search of the perfect programmer's font](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/6/13/in-search-of-the-perfect-programmers-font.html) - Jun 5, 2005 ### [Wanna see something really scary? Watch "The Grudge"](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/6/5/wanna-see-something-really-scary-watch-quotthe-grudgequot.html) - Jun 5, 2005 ### [The Regex phrase of death](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/6/5/the-regex-phrase-of-death.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/