IBM and IBM

I assume hardly any advert these days is placed by a human redactor who carefully balances the text of the surrounding article with the product or service advertised for.

More’s the pity, really, as I’d love to meet the genius who put an ad for IBM Tivoli management services slap-bang into the middle of an article of severe data loss at IBM. Following my experience with earlier versions of Tivoli Storage Manager on Windows 2003 Server… dead on!

Love Story

Found this one somewhere, and thought it was just too funny not to reproduce it here…

"Der Bund"

Today's “Der Bund” mentions the National Riffle Association. Let's see… Wikipedia defines “Riffle” as

Riffle

A common shuffling technique is called a riffle, in which half of the deck is held in each hand with the thumbs inward, then cards are released by the thumbs so that they fall to the table intertwined. Many also lift the cards up after a riffle, forming what is called a bridge which puts the cards back into place.

This can also be done by placing the halves flat on the table with their rear corners touching, then lifting the back edges with the thumbs while pushing the halves together. While this method is a bit more difficult, it is often used in casinos because it minimizes the risk of exposing cards during the shuffle.

That's all nice and good, but what on earth could a society dedicated to shuffling decks of cards possibly have against regulating gun ownership? I do wonder…

Due to a small attack of boredom, I have counted the “m”s in the several “Hmmm”s on this page. Interestingly enough, “Hmmm” is always spelled with 3 “m”s.

Hmmm…

(I have warned you.)