My New Favourite Word
My first post of the year and I’m being grumpy (a bit) already!
One of my gripes about when we get a new computer is the amount of crud the pc manufacturer has put on it - makes me feel like the first thing I need to do is a clean install of Windows, which is daft. Anyway, there’s an added caveat (sp?) to this in that these programs may not actually work with Windows Vista! The article has also provided me with my new favourite word: ‘Craplets’.
Craplets. Craplets. And indeed, craplets.
January 12th, 2007 at 1:41 pm
That’s a great word. I fear IT is full of craplets. [Firefox's excellent spell-checker is adamant that 'craplets' is not a word, did I perhaps mean 'chaplets'? Woops.]
Programming is full of great expressions, one of my favourites recently was “put more lipstick on the pig’ meaning to put a slick user interface on a fundamentally flawed application.
Tom
January 12th, 2007 at 6:21 pm
[...] nywhere from there. Much neater I think. Footnote: I discovered a new word today thanks to Mik—Craplets. It is not quite the meaning he intended but I think it s [...]
January 14th, 2007 at 3:55 pm
I think your phrase beats mine, Tom!
I wonder if there’s such a job title as ’software make-up artist’?