Tim Chase wrote:
Found this amusing: a while back, for some open web survey of
"cast your vote for your favorite software", I submitted Vim.
There was a mandatory field for the "company" that produced it,
so I put in Bram's name.
Well, a year or so later, somehow that combination of my name and
Bram as a business found their way together and I just got a
magazine addressed to me at my company, "Bram Moolenaar". [rolls
eyes] Well, there are far worse folks to be associated with, so
it's no great crime given that Bram (or what I know of him and
have seen on google-video) is quite an affable fellow. But
that's technology for you. It will certainly be a notable marker
if they sell my name to advertisers.
So, according to Sys-Con media's computers, I now work for Bram.
Maybe someday I'll set their crazy computers straight. Or maybe
it's not-so-subtle commentary that I spend too much time on the
vim-list. :)
-tim
PS: and I never even heard back whether Vim got any accolades
from the survey. :(
:-)
When "company" is a mandatory field, sometimes I write in "n/a" "no company"
or the like. If the computer rejected that, I could always try "None
Whatsoever, Pty.", but usually it doesn't. Computers are too matter-of-fact
for anything like irony.
Best regards,
Tony.
--
hundred-and-one symptoms of being an internet addict:
119. You are reading a book and look for the scroll bar to get to
the next page.
