Saturday, November 21st, 2009
Please join me in welcoming Billy to the Component Factory team. You can see Billy watching over my shoulder as we start our first pair programming exercise to get him up to speed on the Krypton code. Once his initial training is completed Billy will be handling all technical support calls.
Billy is a 10 week old Galah (a Cockatoo native to Australia) that has been hand reared and so is completely tame. The Galah is a very good mimic and over time should be able to speak a variety of words. He can also live up to 40 years old and so looks like being a permanent member of the family.
November 21st, 2009 at 10:02 pm
You just need to teach him to speak (type) “This behavior is by design”, then he should be able to respond to almost all support calls (at least at Microsoft) ;-)
November 22nd, 2009 at 8:46 pm
maybe he can take some time and add sliders? That would be great!
November 22nd, 2009 at 11:52 pm
Nice ! Welcome to him :)
PS : Billy….Bill from MS ? :p
November 23rd, 2009 at 3:25 am
I like your matching outfits :)
November 23rd, 2009 at 10:23 am
He is named Billy in honor of Bill Gates bcause most of my relatives hate Microsoft and use open source software. So to annoy them for the next 40 years I have named the Galah so every time they visit my house they are reminded of him by having to use his name! Any resemblence between the owner and the Galah is clearly in the mind of the viewer…
November 23rd, 2009 at 11:11 pm
What strikes me kinda funny is the triple resemblance:
a) The name Billy reminds us of Bill Gates
b) The matching outfits mentioned by “DavidS”
c) Your profile looks pretty similar to the one of Bill Gates. See URL below
http://www.epathram.com/itsit/uploaded_images/bill_gates_profile-726096.jpg
November 24th, 2009 at 9:23 am
Where did you think Bill Gates went when he retired? Australia!