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Posted December 4, 2007

I started my developer career on the tail end of the last tech bubble, so I can’t help getting all misty eyed thinking about the Tech Bubble Part Deux.

What better way to celebrate this historic event than to pay homage to some soon-to-be classic YouTube satire by the Richter Scales. It’s set to the tune of of Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire”. I especially like the minute by minute rags-to-riches twitter stream along with the “Just Go Blog About It” refrain at the end. The irony of using an 80’s Billy Joel song to lambaste Web 2.0 is pure evil genius.

So now I finally understand what is driving the big IT salary increases in recent months that has been touted in this CIO magazine article.

Note to self: Pack a few extra bucks under the mattress for when the bubble goes kerplewy again in a couple of years.

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4 Comments so far

  1. JR on December 4th, 2007

    Tech Bubbles Burst as often as Birthday’s Come!
    HAPPY Birthday, Young Pup!!!

    BLOG ON!

  2. Russell Ball on December 5th, 2007

    Thanks man! I’ve done some intense goofing off today and fell all recharged for another year of running, beer making, and blogging.

  3. Robz on December 15th, 2007

    And then it’s gone… :’(

  4. Caffeinated Coder >> Russell Ball » An Open Letter to a Certain Delusional Canadian Blogger on January 14th, 2008

    […] Most of the other winners offered me vast sums of their blogger wealth, which thanks to the new tech bubble now dwarfs the paltry chump change held by the oil […]

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