About two hours from Los Angeles, Palm Springs is a desert resort city - arid and beautiful with the San Jacinto mountains as a scenic backdrop. Bill Gates has a home here, within an upscale Golf and Resort Community. In early January, the Microsoft co-founder met me in Palm Springs, a short drive from his home, for what would be a very personal, intense conversation on a project very dear to his heart - Source Code: My Beginnings - part one of what may end up being a three-part memoir.