On 20/11/10 12:00, Jim Franklin wrote:
> Funny thing said at work today by the boss's daughter - who amazes me eve=
ry
> time I see her - in the fact that she remembers to breathe as well as
> walk...
>
> She was at next to me, watching me demonstrate a web application I have b=
een
> working on for about 11 months...
>
> Daughter (D): so you train people on this?
> Me (M): No, I wrote it.
> D: you wrote it?
> M: yes; that's what I've been doing here since January.
> D: Oh, I thought you were a trainer or a technical guy.
> M: No, I'm the web systems developer.
> D: It looks really good.
> M: Thank you.<feeling quite proud>
> D: So it will work if we start up in France?
> M: yes, in the same way as we do it in Slovakia, Poland, Hungary, Czech
> republic and Turkey
> D: So it just translates it?
> M: No, we get an agency to translate and a local to make sure it makes
> 	Sense and we just paste the translations into here.<shows resource
> file with keywords>
> D: WOW, Apple got it right this time.
> M: ??? Apple ???
> D: When they invented the internet.
> M:<crying inconsolably into my keyboard>  They didn't invent it
> D: are you sure?
> M: it was invented by an English guy "Tim Berners Lee"
> D: well, you're a techy, you should know.
> D:<pauses>
> D: It still looks good, even if it wasn't by apple.
>
> ... lost for words ...
>   =20
dude, first beer is on me ;->
--=20
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