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Context doesn't take candy from strangers.

There is something about a pair of sexy shoes that makes you want to strut your stuff. Even if it's just around the only AC'd room in the house, occasionally stepping over stuffed frogs.

shaysdays, here.

Talking about computers is hard without a sound grasp of the jargon. Here is a small sample of words in common usage.

* Network Outage = system administrator caught looking at gay porn

* Defenestrate = to uninstall windows

* Blag = to blog

* Blog = to blag

* Distributed resources = several different copies on several different machines, no one knows which is the latest version

* rm -rf / = Unix apocalypse

* Segmentation Fault = failure to peel an orange neatly

* xkcd = A webcomic - just mention it, it's like a secret handshake for boffins

* Friends (as defined in C++) = allowed to use each other's private members. N.B. In the real world this is generally considered slightly more than friends.

* IMPLICIT NONE = Fortran porn ahead

* Porn = internet

* Mac = poncey Unix box

* Infinity = 0111111110000000000000000000000 - assuming you're using a thirty-two bit processor with the IEEE standard

* Bus Error = late because of public transport

* 'Its not a bug, it's a feature' = handy phrase - Context only serves to confuse the issue further.