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March 15, 2006
Thunderbird Speling Glitch
Certain readers of this online journal may consider me to be unfairly anti-Microsoft. This is not true. One of my best mates from high school now works for the software juggernaut. I remember I saw him a few years ago at a friend's wedding and asked him, while he was espousing the admirable traits of what the company was achieving and how it was helping the entire world, if he ever looked critically at any of Microsoft's business practices. If I recall correctly we got into an argument when he accused me of suggesting that he had been brainwashed, and I don't think we've spoken since.
But anyway, I'm getting off track. If there's something second-rate about another company's products, or an open source application that I feel like commenting on, then I'm happy to do so.
Like this little dialog which made me chuckle today. I was typing an email to a friend in Mozilla Thunderbird, and I actually used the word 'Thunderbird' in my message.
Well wouldn't you know it?
Tags: Thunderbird, funny
Posted by mattymcg at March 15, 2006 10:27 PMMy favorite encounter with spell check was during a written assignment which required some political commentary.
I mentioned the Prime Minister's name
John Howard: and spell check recommended that I try 'coward'.
Later in the same assignment I mentioned a previous Prime Minister Paul Keating: spell check recommended that I try 'cheating'.
Does microsoft know something we do not?
Oh c'mon Boris, dont be so dramatic! Surely for us technical types emails count as talking? :)
Anyway, since I got an anonymous (unless someone else from old Marion High works for the juggernaut too...) mention on your blog I felt I had to comment. You are probably surprised I'm lurking...
Got a bit of a chuckle reading the first bit, sounded like a generic. "I'm not XXXX, some of my best friends are XXXXX"...:)
Anyway, I certainly remember that discussion, (I think it was immediately after beers with the lads in that outdoor spa that was so chlorinated it turned my black bathers baby s**t brown (which of course is a colour you are now very familiar with)), but I digress, I'm still not brainwashed, though I think the idea of brainwashing is that you aren't actually aware of it. Perhaps I'm not a good judge, I think later this year I will be able to say with more confidence...
Actually, I have always wondered if I somehow did a sales job on the wonders of working for a monopolist that day, since sometime after it you ended up working for IBM...
P.S. My (kinda) spellcheck story is the time I tried to order some evaluation copies of Microsoft Exchange Messaging. What instead turned up were 7 boxes of 20 wooden "Massage" devices with Exchange Server printed on the side...Seems I put in a slight typo (Message -> Massage), one that sadly still spelt a correct word. It left me wondering what else our marketing department could get their hands on.
I still have one left, though they were VERY popular at presentations....
Posted by: Daniel McPherson at March 18, 2006 04:48 AMHa ha, there you go folks - the Internet, reuniting old friends. I can't get the busy man to return an email, but I drop a subtle reference to him in a blog post and I get a comment straight away! I feel like an American, having to go on Ricky Lake to air my domestic problems with the world to get them resolved!!
Just kidding Dags, great to hear from you and nice typo story!
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