words are images

Ok, it’s been so long since I posted anything that I forgot my username and password. Of course, I wrote them down, but it didn’t help that I had written the wrong username. Oh well.

Anyhow, on to spellcheck. I love spellcheck, but not for the reason that you might think. I’m pretty good at spelling and spellchecking is generally more useful to me for catching typos. But a lot (notice that ‘alot’ is not a word) of words that I use in technical documents are not in MS Word’s dictionary, so it will make suggestions. Sometimes these are hilarious.

Today I was updating my resume and I wanted to include my experience with WordPress, the blogging software I use to write this stuff. Well, my edition of Word was born before blogging, because spellcheck didn’t recognize the word. Here is what Word suggested for ‘blogging’:

bogging
logging
slogging
clogging
flogging

Hmmm. Maybe spellcheck is smarter than I thought…

No, it’s not a horse race (RIP Barbaro), it’s what the clock said when I looked up. After feverishly ironing out glitches with the image gallery software, here’s my first post.

I’m calling the tidbits of information I’ll put here ‘random synapse firings’ because it’s not my intention to have any particular structure. However, if you become a regular reader, you may be able to discern certain themes. I’ll start with one of my favorite topics: (more…)