When’s the last time you heard someone slot in their own lyrics into your favorite Billboard song? Today, at least for me. Check out Pat Helland’s (Architect, Enterprise Architecture Team, Microsoft) version of Don McClean’s American Pie at TechEd Europe 2004. Don Box (Architect, XML Messaging, Microsoft) is on guitar and David Chappell is on piano. Take a listen (video included) at Channel 9.
Channel 9 just update their site design too. I can’t say it’s extraordinary, but it’s better than before. More videos please. 
Mr. CIO Guy – A Speculative Retrospective
VERSE 1
A long, long, time agoâ?¦
I can still remember how that software made the business play.
And my dream that I held so dear,
And worked on for my whole career,
Was that the information could pay.
But Harvard reached into its quiver,
And to the boardroom did deliver.
Cutbacks on our spending,
The IT boom was endingâ?¦
I canâ??t remember if they laughed,
As our department was de-staffed,
And lost the knowledge of our craft,
The day that I-T died.
Soâ?¦CHORUS
Bye, Bye Mr. CIO-Guy,
Gonna outsource every resource â??til the business runs dry.
And MBAs count the beans going by and singing
Thisâ??ll make the P-E go high!
Thisâ??ll make the P-E go high!View the video at Channel 9. (Streamed with Windows Media 9)
Read the full lyrics at DevHawk’s weblog. (Source for this lyrics)
Absolutely geeky.
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hmm…I don’t know the exact meaning of the song…don’t really know the terms used. I can tell it’s funny, though. I think?
by Serene (Jul 3, 2004 at 8 PM)Serene: hahaa, it supposed to be funny. He uses a lot of shortforms
by Mr. Dew (Jul 3, 2004 at 9 PM)