My sentiments exactly.

In fact this is also why I never had my hopes up for wild statements as 'round-trip engineering' (in UML context).  This makes me remember the funny quotation about it being as absurd as trying to reverse a sausage machine: (hopelessly) trying to get the pig back :-)

In every case I am quite sure that people (including me) will keep on trying (and should be encouraged to) although the outcome in all this is pretty much covered by 'Turtles all the way down'

Friend of my sent me this message:

Weird! 
 
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, 

it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, 

the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae.  

The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. 

Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, 

but the wrod as a wlohe. 
 
Fcuknig amzanig huh? 
 

Mkaes me rmmbeeer tihs quttoaion from A.A. Mline (athuor of Wnniie the Pooh) :

My spllneig is Wobbly. It's good sepnllig but it Wblobes, and the ltrtees get in

the wnrog plcaes. -- AA Milne  

This very much applies to my own spelling (at least I realize) but today I just got Cambridge backing me in not worrying too much ;-)

Hm, I wonder what Google will make out of this?

*udtape* : as epxetded gglooe jsut fnids the ohtres blggnoig these rsletsus.

Being late in announcing to you this not to be missed event can only be justified by adding that the responses for the planned Hackathon on the day before is already making us reserve an additional room so we can host more people and thus cover more topics.

So it is not too late yet to add yourself and the topics you'ld like to see discussed.

I was wondering today...

Is Belgium really the only country in the world where employees are confronted with ridiculous 'toiletiquette' announcements in the rest rooms?

Please let me (mpo at outerthought dot org) know if other countries have the same kind of folklorish custom, and please make sure it cannot be traced to an over-active former Belgian colleague feeling the need to educate his fellow humans.

If yes, we should get to the bottom of this. Why do we think people are not educated enough already by mom and dad to behave in public rest rooms?

If not, I am deprived from the comforting feeling that it is only this small country doing this...

*update *: Google (via Tom) makes me see the whole world is tied up in this: 25700 hits!!!

There is however one that should get a boost in his Google ranking: In fact *that* is the kind of stuff I would appreciate reading in a rest-room :-)

Ok, the new question then: who has already seen this kind of patronizing publications in the corporate context, i.e. with company logo and all?