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.] 

I tried to leave a note at your blog, entered the password “tulip” but somehow the password must have gotten garbled and “poof”. Will figure this out later… anyway here is a second draft:

Had been away for a while - some typical trials and tribulations at work. Doubt and depression descended like a fog. A time of desperation. Suffice it to say that your Exploratory and RST teachings are the major factor pulling me through this (and these
problems do have gifts for us in their hands for sure).

So I did not learn about your situation until now…

So very thankful that Lenore is on the mend and that you are returning to your lovely Orcas Island. I do not just feel *for* you James, I feel *with* you. I have experienced the paradigm shift of being mired in technology and endless problems - then
suddenly Lydia is in danger - or even just in need… We simply do whatever we must to be there. It is so very fascinating to ponder the parallels between Rapid and Exploratory Testing and medical testing and diagnosis - and this is tasty food for
thought - but when our loved one is in crisis, we just want it to all work out OK.

When I’ve been with dear ones in the hospital, the medical staff has mentioned that they tried to figure out whether I was an engineer or a minister. I am honestly not sure which is closer to the truth.

In situations like this, we think, we analyze, but most of all we pray. We call upon Something beyond Thought to help us through it all.

Sounds like a happy ending for this chapter - Lenore is healing and you are led by love to vector time and energy from Teaching to Writing (which is, after all, really crystallized Teaching). So a terrifying drama leads to a promising Alternate Future.

A terrifying Problem with a wonderful Gift.

Thanks for the link to “hils” - I’ll really enjoy checking out how this is evolving. Just a thought… Bruce Eckel wrote a wonderful book “Thinking in Java” and published it on the Web. Friends thought he was nuts… giving away the store. But…the physical
book was a best-seller! So perhaps publishing samples on the web will help to bring people to your literary works… but then again, you’re already doing this!

Our thoughts and prayers are with you and Lenore…
Wishing you health, peace and adventure!
-john

After staying in Seattle tonight, they will be home tomorrow on Orcas Island.

OK… So I’m basically writing to thank you and other in your field of thinking for providing ME with additional, numerical and definitive facts of knowledge in the area of exploratory testing. Having a hardware and software background I have always been in the position to meld the experiences from both worlds to find issues rapidly. (I also, always ended up being the lab architect as well because of it too. Long story) Digressing, I now have a better understanding of the range of exploratory testing from the information provided to me during STPCON. It helps solidify aspects of my knowledge and gives me a better since of confidence when relaying my thoughts and feeling to my director and up instead of just numbers parse from a tracking system for review.

Anyways… Thanks again, GREAT HEALTH to you and yours, break an appendage on the book(s)…

CIAO,
Joseph

[James' Reply: Thanks, Joseph.]

I’m sorry to hear about what has happened to Lenore. I hope that she’ll get well soon.

What a loss for the Eurostar conference that you are not coming. I was looking forward to see you argue against the certifications fanatics =).
However, knowing that you are writing new books is off course so much better.

Best regards,
Petter

All the best, my regards to your good lady, Ivor

[James' Reply: Thanks, Ivor.]