Category Archives: Software

How do you say to a customer, “Sorry, it’s a bug. We don’t know when we’ll get around to fixing it?” Not like EMusic, to whom I had complained that their MP3s don’t have a full v1 tag, and always … Continue reading → Continue reading →

missing from the database manuals: drop table [on foot] dance on table. beat head on table sob into puddle of beer on table Continue reading →

I went round to see my copy editor today. I had to deliver a copy of the worm book, and she had asked if I could give her a lesson in *nix. Of course, I gave her, free. the most … Continue reading → Continue reading →

This is the most frustrating piece of software that I know. It’s 90% right, which is what makes it harder to bear. The company that made it went made, and never put the ffort into keeping it up to date … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I love that word: it’s the Californian for “brilliant” and suffers from equal Hypobole. If Fred Sanger were to offer the right change in the market in Saffron Walden, he’d be told he was “Brilliant”; walking through a drugstore parking … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Word processors are written by programmers but used by writers. There are two things that show this in the case of OO. It has a command to select words by the line — which is a syntactic unit in programming … Continue reading → Continue reading →