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6-word IT Stories
No doubt many of you are preparing for the Easter weekend. And just to prevent that you have to spend it in boredom and lethargy, I would like to invite you to join us in publishing your personal 6-Word IT Story. Hemingway once did it: “For sale: baby shoes, never worn” and he claimed it was his best story ever. Wired did a nice round last autumn (including a good story from Eileen Gunn: "Computer, did we bring batteries? Computer?") and The Guardian recently organised a similar challenge. But this time it’s different: this time were asking you, IT / business / architecture / software / transformation / innovation people to share your most thrilling adventures with us in the shortest possible way. Is it true that even the essence of our complex lives can be expressed in just 6 words? We’ll be anxiously watching the comments. To get you started, here’s a few of our own, very mediocre 6-words IT stories. You can do better!
Floated for days, could not blog.
Deadline approaching. We must act before
“When MSN crashes, society ends” (daughter).
Mumbai traffic was only the beginning.
Posted by Ron Tolido on April 6, 2007 in
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# on April 6, 2007 3:41 PM, Tim Kelly said:
Here's a few for you:
Second Life down, engage with family
Help! Security breached... Servers crashing...aaarggh!
"Press RETURN to continue", successfully installed.
Met a level-60 rogue. Died.
"What about pressing reset? Uh-oh"
# on April 6, 2007 4:38 PM, W.B. McNamara said:
The classic:
Tape backup? Um...what tape backup?
# on April 6, 2007 5:13 PM, Peter de Laat said:
Thanks Charles, Alan, John, Ted, Tim
# on April 6, 2007 5:20 PM, Artee said:
Yet another blonde entering Second Life
# on April 6, 2007 5:30 PM, Tim Kelly said:
Trust me, your data is secure.
# on April 9, 2007 9:36 AM, reinkefj said:
Blog comments: someone crying for attention!
# on April 9, 2007 6:24 PM, Lee Provoost said:
To be, or not to be?
# on April 10, 2007 1:38 AM, John L said:
Testing?! Let's just release the thing!
# on April 10, 2007 8:43 AM, ewan said:
Rolling out? Let's engage the architect now..
# on April 10, 2007 8:47 AM, Ron Tolido said:
@Ewan: well, that's a good story, unfortunately slightly more words than expected... Why not turn it into:
Rolling out. Will engage architect now.
# on April 10, 2007 11:38 AM, Tim Kelly said:
A few more:
Architects? Too expensive for my project
Architects? Projects will fail without them
cd / ; rm -rf .
# on April 10, 2007 11:55 AM, Ron Tolido said:
"Tim mastered Unix the hard way"
# on April 10, 2007 10:55 PM, Tim Kelly said:
Unix said: "Memory Fault - Core Dump"
# on April 11, 2007 3:19 AM, Franky said:
Fill blog with buzzwords, reap rewards.
# on April 11, 2007 12:14 PM, Mark Nankman said:
Here are a few I could think of
Project found dead, cause: bureaucratic undecisiveness
Here's one that I qoute a lot (by Pete McBreen):
All methodology is based on fear
# on April 11, 2007 1:58 PM, Mark Nankman said:
These wil probably not make it to the top 10 but anyway...
Repeatedly asking 'why?' usually kills requirements.
Can 6-word sentences be SMART?
Java is just inferior robusta...
# on April 12, 2007 2:57 AM, John L said:
Bandwidth? Station wagon full of DVDs.
# on April 12, 2007 3:03 AM, Anonymous said:
Crushing Blow: Project Manager on holiday.
# on April 12, 2007 4:19 AM, Anonymous said:
Brand new fad, join bandwagon today!
# on April 12, 2007 8:19 AM, Tarun Chandel said:
Holiday over, shut up and work.
# on April 13, 2007 12:58 PM, Ben Everard said:
Of course it works, look ... D'oh
# on April 13, 2007 2:28 PM, Tim Kelly said:
One that is close to my heart (I see it all the bl**dy time):
I want requirements; you provide solutions
# on April 13, 2007 4:59 PM, andy mulholland said:
can't resist joining in on this one Ron !!
My entry?
his spam preventer e-mailed him........regularly!
regards andy
# on April 14, 2007 9:14 AM, POI said:
We are a CMM level5 company
# on April 17, 2007 5:39 PM, Peter Swaanenvelt said:
Offshore Testing - testing here, testing there, (testing everywhere)
# on April 21, 2007 8:20 PM, Marcel van Breeden said:
The flat world reinvented IT... again
On all shores value is created
"Endangered species found: onshore business process"
# on April 23, 2007 11:10 AM, Mark Nankman said:
I just love metaphysics (thanks for the inspiration Marcel):
IT reinvents itself over and over
IT itself is a perpetual beta...
# on May 1, 2007 9:39 PM, Eric Near said:
This gold brick is too heavy.
# on May 3, 2007 12:03 PM, Ashok said:
ASCII a question. Get an ANSI.
# on May 10, 2007 9:46 AM, Anonymous said:
Technical Specification was passed, and ignored
# on May 10, 2007 10:41 AM, IainJH said:
Relax, what could possibly go wrong.
# on May 10, 2007 12:44 PM, Jamie said:
Whoops, typo! Wrong way Mariner 1.
# on May 10, 2007 3:09 PM, Tom Marshall said:
Internet Broken, time to document system.
# on May 11, 2007 3:24 PM, Richard said:
Microsoft insecure? Wash your mouth out!
# on May 11, 2007 3:26 PM, Richard Moss said:
Lotus Notes? More than just mail?
# on May 11, 2007 3:31 PM, Richard Moss said:
Ending message with an acronym.
# on May 11, 2007 3:32 PM, Richard Moss said:
Ending message with an acronym. EOM
# on May 11, 2007 3:34 PM, Richard Moss said:
Too much time wasted on Friday.
# on May 11, 2007 3:44 PM, Richard Moss said:
bLOODY cAPS lOCK. tIME tO rETYPE.
# on May 11, 2007 3:50 PM, Richard Moss said:
This forum doesn't like HTML tags.
# on May 11, 2007 3:54 PM, Richard Moss said:
Is a smiley a word? ;-)
# on May 11, 2007 4:09 PM, Richard Moss said:
Microsoft literally means; small, not hard!
# on May 11, 2007 4:10 PM, Richard Moss said:
"You're wasted in IT" says boss.
# on May 11, 2007 4:31 PM, D said:
"Lotus Notes versus Microsoft Outlook". Discuss.
# on May 12, 2007 11:01 PM, Mark Nankman said:
Richard wrote 10 in 46 minutes!
no offense meant ;-)
# on May 12, 2007 11:55 PM, Richard said:
Yeah, but how many were funny?
(No offence taken, lol)
# on May 12, 2007 11:57 PM, Mike said:
Technically, forty six is two words!
# on May 14, 2007 1:12 PM, Raj said:
Who said "no IT, no comment"?
# on May 26, 2007 12:13 PM, Paul Manning said:
Year 2000, you want it when?
# on May 26, 2007 12:13 PM, Paul Manning said:
Year 2000, you want it when?
# on May 26, 2007 12:13 PM, Paul Manning said:
Year 2000, you want it when?
# on July 12, 2007 8:04 AM, Zaffer Khan said:
Database Crashed!!! Backups Invalid... DBA's Hell...
# on August 17, 2007 9:41 PM, Jeroen Hof said:
What is this button here for?