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simont ([personal profile] simont) wrote2011-06-17 12:01 am

Pub poetry

Crashety-bashety
Microsoft Windows is
badly in need of a
UI that's nice.

Some feature filed under
‘Accessibility’
makes it superb – but you
can't find it twice.

(Brought to you by several pints of Kopparberg and [livejournal.com profile] fanf praising the ‘mouse trails’ feature in Windows.)

[identity profile] writinghawk.livejournal.com 2011-06-17 07:11 am (UTC)(link)
It's a double dactyl (qq).(*)

(*) I invented this acronym by analogy with 'qv'. It stands for 'quod quaeste' and invites the reader to google for the term in question. It has yet to gain wide appeal.

[identity profile] writinghawk.livejournal.com 2011-06-17 03:50 pm (UTC)(link)
(Random thought during the afternoon while doing something else) I think I mean 'quaere'. But you get the idea.