The pictures of Chairman Bill were a huge hit, so I thought I would follow them up with this video tour of the legendary Microsoft Bob (alas, that clip circa March 2001, via The Screen Savers, no longer works, but here’s a replacement). I once had a copy of the software, but alas it has been lost to the ages, and all that survives in my office is this semi-priceless baseball hat, somewhat dusty and never worn, with the Bob logo:
(Props to Slate editor-at-large Jack Shafer for the link.)
And woohoo! My old PC Computing buddy Rich Schwerin just sent me this shrink-wrapped copy of Bob:
Ed Bott 
Whenever I have a project go horribly wrong at work, I like to say to myself, “Melinda worked on Bob, and she still got to marry the richest man in the world.”