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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
I am sending you this e-mail from a bogus software company address so that you will be sure to read it. Please forgive the deception, but I thought you should know what has been going on at home since your computer entered our lives two years ago. The children are doing well. Tommy is seven […]