This fits right in with stuff we've been talking about at work for the last week or so:
...Cory Doctorow's notes from Life Hacks: Tech Secrets of Overprolific Alpha Geeks from ETCON...
JWZ: Every program expands until it can read mail.Danny's Corralary: Every program that can read mail ends up
getting used for everything else.Sysadmins get thousands of emails from automated processes, "My
HDD is full, My HDD is full, etc"--
Everyone, including Alpha Geeks, use only one app:
People complain about how their work wants them to use
organizers...Joel Splosky uses Excel for everything.
HR person sends website designs in PPT.
Don Lancaster sees the world in Postscript.
...via (naturally) BoingBoing
Posted by dcoates at February 11, 2004 03:21 PM