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August 2008

Mac Mail Sillyness
Posted : Sat August 30th

Can a community change?
Posted : Wed August 27th

Enough with the AJAX already
Posted : Tue August 26th

Fun with Tomcat
Posted : Sat August 23rd

Design trickyness
Posted : Tue August 19th

Garbage in, garbage out
Posted : Mon August 18th

The hidden costs of older apps
Posted : Sun August 17th

Closing JDBC resources
Posted : Fri August 15th

Accident or Google Conspiracy
Posted : Wed August 13th

Excitement
Posted : Fri August 8th

Time for ISP responsibility
Posted : Fri July 25th

Keep a lid on it
Posted : Tue July 22nd

4 minutes till doomsday
Posted : Tue July 15th

It's your name, you should own it
Posted : Mon July 14th

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Garbage in, garbage out
Posted : Monday August 18th, 2008

In the world's first tech-support issue Charles Babbage was asked about the world's first computer

Mr. Babbage, if you put into the [computer] wrong figures, will the right answers come out

About which he later noted

I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.

Well Charles it's been 190 years and I don't have a clue either.

With that in mind users of the world please take note. If you cram the street address, city, province/state/country and zip/postal code all into the field designated for the street address the contact data is unusable. Really. It can't be validated. Can't be formatted. And it means someone like me has to spend a good amount of time writing a program to decode your unique format into something that can actually be used.