Have I done something wrong?
May 8th, 2007
This is geeky, but still makes me chuckle.
An email came in to the team mailbox the other day – a frustrated web publisher with a problem. “I put the link in to this page but it doesn’t work – have I done something wrong?”.
We found the page, looked, took a moment to comprehend, then laughed quite a lot.
“You didn’t actually add any links, you coloured the text blue and underlined it”.
“That’s no good, is it.”
At this point you might be tempted to explain that for the link to work would have required some kind of clairvoyance on the part of the software, or the user, but there’s really not much point.
“That’s OK, we’ll fix it. Didn’t you just have training in web publishing last week? Yes. Did you go?”.
Quite Random is the blog of Nathan Nelson, a human male who lives in the UK and is not entirely sure what he's going to do when he grows up but is interested in international development, photography, secularism, technology, music and movies and other things anyone of his age would be.
