Warm regards and lot’s of good health to Lenore!

Asaf

Hope your Wife has recovered and she is fine now. Hope and pray things would would get back to a normal state.

PV

Glad to hear that you wife is getting better Thank Gd. May she have a full recovery.

Regards,
Mordechai
-Jerusalem

Sorry to hear about your wife’s health problems. Hope she gets better quickly and will soon be on the mend. I am here in good Old England and have just been diagnoised with Bells Pasly (facial paralysis) but have taken the edge off the feel bad factor by watching your google seminar. What a great relief to hear you say you don’t need qualifications to be a good tester. I have been a tester now for just over a year but have had over 9 years experience with web technologies and consider myself to be something of an expert (obviously still have a long way to go…) but so refreashing to hear what you had to say on testing overall. Great work and look forward to watching more of what you have to teach you soon.

[James’ Reply: Thanks. I hope your palsy clears up quickly. I understand it sometimes does.] 

[James’ Reply: Thanks Deb. Intestinal blockage is a rare effect of endometriosis– which is why everyone thought it was cancer (they didn’t say “cancer”, but they wrote cancer-like comments in her chart.)]

I think James is going beyond testing, pressing into the area of adult learning. James, I think you would get a lot out of John Holt (or Maria Montessori), but I suspect it would be similar to what I got out of reading Testing Computer Software by Kaner “man, It took me years to bumble around and figure this out for myself and how to articulate it … I wish I had read this ten years ago. Hey look, there’s an anecdote I hadn’t heard before. And another one. cool …”

[James’ Reply: Yeah, actually my son is being unschooled. I’m running my own private Summerhill Institute here in my living room.]

All the very best for your new books…

This is an opportunity for you to be innovative, you might come across new ways of doing business (like without much of travel or on similar lines). This, I’m sure would impact positively on our testing community…in a big way…..

Cheers,
Shankar

[James’ Reply: I’d like to do online training, but my Internet connection is pretty slow and unreliable. I’m trying to upgrade it.]

Second, that you are not coming to the Eurostar since this was one of the main reasons to go there. I was really looking forward to the discussions between you and the certification people. I was attending a meeting called “future test management” in Stockholm this spring and I think you made some really good points, regarding certification among other things, that made me look at this in new and different ways.

Once again I really hope that your wife gets well, looking forward to your books and I will have to try to find another occasion to hear your thoughts about testing,

Best Regards
//Tomas

[James’ Reply: Canceling was painful for me, but I’m trying to make it into a positive. For years I’ve been wishing to have the time to really get into a writing project. Now, I have no money, but at least I have the time.]