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.

I will send you your work plan for the coming week.  Don't expect a
paycheck though! :-)

>  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. :(

Accolades?  I prever chocolades.

-- 
I'm sure that I asked CBuilder to do a "full" install.  Looks like I got
a "fool" install, instead.              Charles E Campbell, Jr, PhD


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