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        <title><![CDATA[Bugs]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I think the term &quot;bug&quot; goes back to Jaquard looms - insects did occasionally mess up the patterns by getting into the punched cards.Back on topic: We recently announced that upcoming power work would result in no network access for a few hours. More than one user asked if they could continue working with offsite resources if they used their own laptops instead.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Uncle Stoat]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 02:45:17 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The Silicon Zoo has them all]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/creatures/index.htmlEdit:  This site is also the home for the Powers of 10 tutorial...http://tinyurl.com/22yr8r]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[NickNielsen]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:25:42 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Go Navy! (or Harvard, rather)]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[A moth, wasn't it? Causing a short circuit.edit: I looked around a little and apparently engineers have been using this term for some time. I also see that the &quot;computer bug&quot; had been mistakenly attributed to someone else's experience (Grace Hopper) rather than Bill Burke and co. (was Hopper working with them?)Whereas I had thought this had taken place on equipment operated by the Navy, I see that it  was the Mark II at Harvard which had suffered from this particular bug. I learn (or re-learn) things every day. I am glad you asked that intriguing question.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[seanferd]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:13:45 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[By the way]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[You're amazing!]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Joe_R]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:50:04 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Thanks for your post]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[That is rather amusing.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Joe_R]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:45:50 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[You're right - that is funny]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In fact, I noticed it immediately. I can't control the tags assigned to my blog entries, because it's automatically generated. I even asked my TR editor about it, but I was told that nothing could be done about it (at least in the short term). Technology will always have those little bugs. By the way, do you know the origin of &quot;bug&quot;?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Joe_R]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:44:00 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[And I bet I'd know what Mr. Trickle's daughter would be named]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-248056-2401057]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[Gonorrhea...LOL.  No offense to Mr. Trickle here either.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[ManiacMan]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:52:43 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[That is the equipment's fault]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[When those guys walked into the room, it should have snapped to attention!]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[seanferd]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 11:55:36 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Yeah, no offense intended, but]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[for instance: Dick Trickle. C'mon, now. And that one isn't even novel. Again, no offense to Mr. Trickle.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[seanferd]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 11:53:30 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Video Conferencing Equipment]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I was working for a foutune 500 company at the time.  During lunch a call comes in from the CEO's admin.  The big wigs were having a meeting with Australia and the equipment didn't work and they were panicing.  I went upstairs to check it out.  Around the table was the CEO, CIO, CFO and a few others.  Doing the math in my head I figured there was about $35 million in annual salaries sitting at the table.The exec running the meeting points at the equipment says, &quot;Doesn't work, fix it.&quot;  I check the back for loose cables, plugged in, etc.  Turns out they never hit the power button.  It fired up perfectly.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[RFink]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 09:57:48 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What in the world are people thinking when they do this?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Or perhaps they're not thinking and that's the problem.  I'm sure little kids won't know what a placenta is, but by the time this girl reaches junior high school age and all the kids take sex education class, the teasing will begin and you'll see another story in the paper about a student committing suicide or another Columbine style shooting.  Parents really need to pull their heads out of their behinds and stop giving these idiotic names to their kids because the psychological damage is irreversable. It's just as bad as naming your daughter &quot;Vagina&quot; or &quot;Clitoris&quot;.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[ManiacMan]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 21:41:11 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Perhaps you should have just taken the Wonka-vator]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[You have a nice avatar, also, if I may return a compliment.My avatar is actually a bit of chip art from way back. There was also a whale and a cricket wicket. I believe that they were all on the same IC. I'd have to do some searching to see exactly where they came from, but I do have images of the others, I think, buried somewhere. (Probably in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet, in a disused lavatory...)]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:12:48 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Actually...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I used to have this co-worker, whose friend named her daughter &quot;Placenta&quot; at birth. I was told that the mother thought that this was such a beautiful name. I do know that there are several locales with the name &quot;Placentia&quot;(Latin for &quot;Nice place you've got there&quot;), and that the word &quot;placenta&quot; is from the Latin for some bit of bread or pastry type of thingumie. I find this a strange name for a human, though.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[seanferd]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:44:32 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[haha.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[A very slow elevator. I'm too lazy to take the stairs. Nice avatar. I love HHG.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[ITgirli]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 07:01:28 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Ben Dover, Seymour Boody, Jack Meofski, Mike Hunt, Jacques Strap]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-248056-2399275]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[classics]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[ManiacMan]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 19:56:10 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Coincidence is funny.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[&quot;...At the exact second I hit the print button, I heard a big pop - a big bang, really - and computers all over the office started beeping. The lights all went out, the printers all shut down, and some of the computers have even turned off. I don?t think the bang is related to my printing, but it happened at the exact second I sent the print...&quot;She pressed a button, and all the power went out. Events were unrelated except in timing. This makes the situation a bit strange, which some people find amusing. Where does morbidity enter into this? I can understand if you or others fail to find this odd or amusing, but why do you find that someone who does find this kind of scenario amusing &quot;live(s) a morbid life&quot;?Are you using the word 'morbid' in some type of colloquial manner?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[seanferd]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 19:51:05 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[OMG!! Its a rootkit trojan!]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I wonder what these guys would do in a real emergency, or perhaps they just maintain job security (or &quot;easy time&quot;) by reformatting at every BSOD.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[seanferd]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 19:33:07 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[That    is  amusing]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[and kind of sad.  ...And WTH   did  take you so long?  ]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[seanferd]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 19:25:10 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Nosmo King]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[That is all.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[seanferd]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 19:21:42 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Stupid People]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Okay, I wouldn't say this is terribly funny, but it is certainly amusing.I was working for a medium size company and I was working on a small computer issue for one of the departments. I got a page to call the president of the company ASAP. I called him and he said I needed to get down there right away, he was having a printing crisis, I go down four floors and all the way to his office in the back and having him immeadiately ask what took so long. Ugh. SO I ask him what the problem is. He says his printer won't print. He tries to printa page to show me, and, sure enough, nothing prints. I walk two feet over to the printer and look at it. Okay, at least the power is on. I open the paper tray: no paper. I pick up some paper from the ream beside the printer and put it in the paper tray. Amazingly the printer then works!  Ta-Da!]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[ITgirli]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 11:29:58 -0800</pubDate>
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