Just a quickie, but I love this TechCrunch article about “10 words I would love to see banned from press releases”
Thankfully I don’t get too many press releases, but I see enough of them online that I have to agree with pretty much all of what’s been said in this one…
A silly reason that I like databases, and SQL…
Herself asked me “How many days between 1st January and August 10th?” – for reasons beyond comprehension.
Normally, something like this would involve figuring out how many weeks, or counting weeks/days in a diary or whatever.
In SQL, it’s a simple “SELECT DATEDIFF(’2009-01-01′,’2009-08-10′)” and lo, you have the answer. (221 days, if anyone cared)
Amazingly, D4D™ now contains no less than 890,631 words.
I was asked by the owner of Arena Flowers for a link to them. So here it is, a link to Arena Flowers. Who are, apparently, lovely and professional.
