Microsoft Chairman and CEO Bill Gates has begun an attempt to make the
Guiness Book of World Records by giving a year-long keynote speech.
Starting at the stroke of midnight, January 1, 2000, Gates presented
the first of a planned 743,561 slides at Gatexpo, a convention dedicated
to sharing the bliss of Bill's mind.
Microsoft spokesman Hugh Sless-Flak said this was the reason the software
giant has been investing in so many wireless broadband companies lately, "so
we can deliver Bill's speech live over the Internet without any interruptions."
Gates' speech, entitled "Innovating in the Millenium and Stuff", is
simultaneously being webcast from Microsoft's site, for a fee.
"It's only fair we charge for this, because it's just like a software
upgrade," said Sless-Flak. "This speech patches and replaces all previous
speeches Bill has ever made."
Sless-Flak noted that the speech was compiled by downloading everything
from britannica.com with a bank of high-speed Sun workstations.
"Yes, we were responsible for blocking out other visitors to their site
when they first opened their collection," Sless-Flak said, slyly. "But
we wanted to get our hands on it before anyone else did."
Gates has logged a previous attempt for making the record books, by
trying to scream at his employees for 10 straight days. He failed after
he stopped to catch his breath at day 8.
