Lecture in Rhyme

Ok. After a long continuous laughing lecture session, I am now stable to persist my experience over the internet.

The day was 11th March, 2005. Just after I came back from nearby Beverly, I was eager (as always) to attend to the lecture of RobMiles. The lecture started with Rob showing us the letter he recieved from Bill Gates. It had just one letter, a big L on it. He said that Bill will send the remaining 3 later (like his software...).

Then as Rob had promised in the website, he tasted cheese. It was followed with the much anticipated auction of microsoft software. That was hilarious with people auctioning Win XP for £1.00 which went upto £70. Great bargain and a resale in ebay will fetch huge profits for sure. Then a decent looking microsoft clock was auctioned which went for £4.00 to a lady. Immediately after that, Rob showed us a box full of these clocks and declared it to be picked from the exit for just £2.00 (poor lady). Actually, had the Microsoft Sales team been present for the event, they would have known the true value for the software they are selling. Microsoft Office for no more than £40.00. Halo for £35.00. And there were many more which were really good bargain.

We had Rob getting his hair dyed in Red color by Paul Chapman. Absolutely hilarious stuff it was.

The lecture as such was very funny. He had proper technical content Interspersed with pun. A poetic touch as he had promised. I hope he puts the slides in his website (as he has done with earlier ones) without sensor.

There was this last set of lecture slides which he explained by RAP music.

David was recording the whole event. He also hinted upon publishing it on the Internet some time. Hopefully he does. I shall update the link once that gets done.

To get an idea of what a lecture in rhyme is all about I went to www.robmiles.com and clicked on his previous lectures (eg. Java 1997). Reading the poem, I got reminded of this particular event.

Great stuff...enjoyed it. Quite unusual stuff to have a techie doing this and moreover being in Computer Science Department. :-)