Two of the Internet's most hated
Unfortunately, the world is filled with people who demonstrate the lowest of human qualities. They do it for all sorts of misguided reasons. Here are just a couple of them. I should warn you, the video below will make you want to yell at your monitor. I know at least one person out there is going to want to lump these guys in with "the left". Trust me, we hate them more than you do.
Social griefer Michael Crook is one of those people. But please don't refer to him as someone from the left. We hate him more than you do. This is just ONE of his sins against us. You can read more about him at
10zenmonkeys.com.
Cyber-sociopath Jason Fortuny have added him to the list.
You can read more about him at
boingboing.net.
The book
Tech support never really changes I suppose. The following video shows what it was like in medieval times.
A10n : i18n, l10n, m12n, etc
What are these crazy letter/number combinations? They're not 1337, if that's what you're wondering. In fact they are the shortened forms of the words internationalization, localization and modularization respectively. The words are made by taking the first and last letter and sandwitching the number of letttes in between. They're used through out computer science and is believed to have been started at Digital Equipment Corporation in the 1970s or 1980s. If we were to do this to my name, for example, we would compress the "atric" to 5 and sandwich it with the "p" and the "k" yielding p5k.
I actually just made up the a10n to stand for abbreviation, although I see I'm not the only one to think of it. Why is abbreviate such a LONG word anyway? If I were to coin that word I'd have it mean an abbreviation of the type I just mentioned, a special abbreviation in which you took the first and last letter with the middle letters replaced by the letter count.
a·ten·n [ey-ten-en]
-noun
1. A shortened form of a word used to represent the assembled by replacing the all but the first and letter with the count of the letters replaced.