[geeks] The word that is the bane of my existence

Charles Shannon Hendrix shannon at widomaker.com
Tue Jun 19 21:54:02 CDT 2007


Sridhar Ayengar wrote:

> Actually, what I end up doing most of the time is running all of my 
> scripts through "sed 's/udpate/update/g'" before I begin debugging.
> 
> Still not cool though.  Bad fingers!  Bad!

In 1989 I worked as a third shift operator on an Eclipse minicomputer.

I came into the computer room at 0100 one night after going downstairs to get 
some food, and found out that none of my "backpu" jobs had run.




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shannon           | An Irishman is never drunk as long as he can hold onto
                   | one blade of grass and not fall off the face of the earth.



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