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Steve Howard wrote:
> > Cheers.
> >
> > Have some spam yourself meetritumail7@yahoo.co.in
>
> Is it just me, or is anyone else getting progressively more
> annoyed...not at SPAM...but at this gibberish of a letter for a
> complete word.  Look at the subject of this SPAM.
>
> I honestly think I could have stood ebonics more easily than I could
> this crap.  What's really crazy is finding computer people who use it;
> individuals who are held to the letter of syntax law for a living, and
> then can't manage to add an "a" and an "e" to an "r" to form the word
> "are"...they are four keys apart on the keyboard!!!
>
> I think I will start writing PLSQL, when I have to, like this...
>
> dklar
>   l numbr;
> bgin
>   4 i in 1..100 lup
>     dbms_output.put_line('r u gettin it?');
>   end lup;
> end;
> /
>
> Maybe we should sue Oracle for not respecting our own "language", and
> allowing us to type PLSQL as we wish...
>
> Back to my coffee...
>
> Regards,
>
> Steve

Steve,

This has become a major bugbear of mine where I work.  A lot of the
so-called IT people I work with, managers in particular, don't seem to
have an IT bone in their body.  It's as if their attitude is "Hey, I've
got a PC running Windows at home, how hard can it be to be an IT
professional?"

I find people around me frequently interchanging the words "dev",
"test" and "train", say.  A developer will e-mail me asking me to put
something onto "train", for example.  When I check that they didn't in
fact mean "test", they look at me like I'm nit-picking, shrug and say
"Yeah, whatever!"

I think that one of my more recent favourites was from a
project-manager who has been promoted far beyond her rank.  While I was
setting up a database as the backend to the application she was tasked
with implementing, I asked when it was to go live.

She replied "It *is* live."

I said "Huh?"

She said "Well, it's live but it just hasn't been rolled out to any
users yet."

I said "Well, that's not live.  Pilot, maybe, but not live."

She just rolled her eyes and looked at her colleague in a "he's always
splitting hairs that one" kind of way.

It infuriates me.  It's a computer.  It deals in zero or one.  Simple.
They are not interchangeable.....!  And they wonder why everything
f%$&*g breaks...

</rant>

I'll have some of that coffee if there's any going spare :)