And why you don’t want to work at Microsoft.
I can’t think of a better use of the term “creative capitalism” than to apply it to open source businesses.
Bill Gates Makes a Brilliant Argument for Open Source
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The $475 you gave to foolswisdom.com
As it says on the About page any money made by me on foolswisdom.com is donated to registered humanitarian charities.
The term “fundraising” in Toni’s article title “Automattic fundraising” reminded me that it was time to donate the money you gave by clicking on the ads here in 2007.
In 2007 that was $475 USD from Google Adsense and nothing from anything else.
$100 was already donated to my uni friend Microserf Nicole Steinbok‘s Great Lake Walk to raise money for Canadian Cancer Society. My $100 donation actually became $400 for the Canadian Cancer Society as I let Nicole donate it in her name so that Microsoft would match her, and her Microserf husband Jeff Steinbok generously matched donations, which Microsoft also matched. I like to stretch my donation dollar. Nicole raised $6301 and walked 49 km!
Just now I donated the rest of the money, $400 to Sami Barker and Esquimalt High friends’ Helping build a playground for youth in San Pancho through GiveMeaning.
San Pancho is a small developing fishing village just north of PV. My Aunt, a resident of the village, has two young boys. She has a close connection with the school, and says the town would benefit from a playground at the elementary school. A group of twelve students from Esquimalt High are participating in a fundraising event to buy supplies. Under the direction of Mr. Ken Henderson, the students will visit the town in March where they will live with the locals, study spanish and hopefully get to help out with the playground’s construction
Thank you for your support 
Flushing Blue Toilet Cleaner of Death!
Microsoft, after finding that the blue screen of death wasn’t having the same amount of market “penetration”, and since the hourglass cursor had never been as successful as Apple Mac OS X’s Spinning Beach Ball of Death , for Windows Vista Microsoft created the spinning ring. 
What do you call it? Do you talk nice to it?
Here for your pleasure, super-sized (which doesn’t happen nearly enough these days) and superimposed onto the original size, the Flushing Blue Toilet Cleaner of Death!
