Ask management if it’s worth a few hundred thousand dollars in lost staff time to put made-up terms in the intranet menus. Usually it isn’t, particularly because you’ll likely be asked to remove the fancy terminology next year — probably just after people have finally gotten used to it. Stick to long-term terminology for navigation labels. These labels are the most costly words in the company in terms of the number of hours employees will spend pondering their meaning.
Sage advice from Jakob Nielson
Jesus H. Christ, it must suck giant wet donkey balls to be stuck on an archaic OS where you need to be dropping into the terminal and tweaking configuration files and compiling shit all the time. I hope the translucent menu bar is worth it.
Mark Pilgrim - Installing MySQL on Ubuntu (the NSFW way)
At our local McDonalds one day, a visitor from Germany ordered a beer.
We all had a good laugh and the I explained that McDonalds doesn’t sell beer in the U.S.
“That means you haff come for der food!” he said, laughing at us.
Dan Robinson, a comment on If Taglines Were Honest
http://www.makemylogobiggercream.com/
humour (_matta_ on #roro) — roro
Rob Sharp
Haggis, neeps and tatties are just a few of my favourite things.
