Life Before the Computer
Once upon a time… An application was for employment.A program was a TV show.A cursor used profanity.A keyboard was a piano.Memory was something that you lost with age.A CD was a bank account.If you had a 3 1/2 inch floppy You hoped nobody found out.Compress was something you did to garbage.If you unzipped anything in […]
Have fun with subtitles
Subtitling TV programmes has become the norm in the UK. It is a boon for deaf people, and a great source of amusement for others, because they often get it wrong – very wrong. Here are some of my favourites:- During the Queen Mother’s funeral subtitles called for ‘a moment’s violence’, instead of ‘a moment’s silence’. A visit by the […]
Is your computer this cluttered?
If PHP were written in British English
When Rasmus Lerdorf first put PHP together, he – quite sensibly, despite his heritage – chose not to write it in Greenlandic or Danish. Good job too – that would have been rather unpleasant to work with. He opted instead, being in Canada at the time, for the local tongue. No, not French, he used […]
If computer problems were real
Try to spot the computing terms.