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A couple of fond memories spring to mind immediately.
A friend of my mother's was trying to buy rolls of fabric online. You can buy 1/4 of a length of fabric, at full width or you can buy 1/4 of the width of the roll at the whole length. In each case, it's a quarter of a roll. The unfortunate term used for the narrow one is "Fat quarter" - mum's friend was suitably shocked when consulting google with the term's plural. 
The other one was the exploits of a teacher at a local college. During the presentation one day of
France, she'd decided to do a google for 'Paris' while the computer was outputting to the video-projector. Hilarity and red-faces ensued.
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I'm never embarrassed, no matter what I find. These are just the moments when I raise an eyebrow and am more than ever convinced that I come from another planet. Unfortunately I can't recall how I got here or where I came from.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
I hold an A-7 computer expert classification, Commodore. I'm well acquainted with Dr. Daystrom's theories and discoveries. The basic design of all our ship's computers are JavaScript.
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May be you can google "where I came from". I guess you might get some NSFW results there. If you know what I mean.
"Bastards encourage idiots to use Oracle Forms, Web Forms, Access and a number of other dinky web publishing tolls.", Mycroft Holmes[ ^]
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My ex-wife's second husband (an American) managed to keep a straight face, saying he had been looking for recipes from home, when she discoverd the search results for "cream pie" on the PC. She actually believed him!
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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that lasted almnost 2 weeks, and now a sore throat. When will it ever end!!!!! arrrggghhhh!
1,2,3 'tis the season to feel sh*tty, tra la la la la, la la la la!
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It's a 'Mr. Death' or something. He's come about the reaping? I don't think we need any at the moment. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Terry Pratchett wrote: DARK IN HERE, ISN'T IT?
Greyhald Spold[^]
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam
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Tis the cold and flu-u season,
Fa la la la la, la la a-choo!
Time for coughing, hacking , wheezing
Fa la la la la, la la cough cough
Take we now a decongestant
Fa la la, la la la, la, la contented sigh
Drink until no longer cogent
Fa la la la la, la la la hiccup
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We've got to do better at work, and I don't have the time or interest to write anything. We have a clever lady in the office who is willing to figure out how to use a decent web development tool set, but she has no interest in becoming a guru. Does someone know of a packaged solution that can handle a small website, dashboard, calendar, event schedule, etc, that a non-developer can maintain easily? It doesn't have to be free, but it does have to be easy.
Will Rogers never met me.
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You might find some usable samples on asp.net[^] - they have a number of ready to use websites that may contain some of what you are looking for.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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Great idea, Mark. I'd forgotten that site, but back in the day when I was actually writing websites, I learned a bunch from www.asp.net!
Will Rogers never met me.
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I thought SharePoint was made exactly for such purposes?
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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We had Sharepoint on our server at one point; no idea where it went. But back then I never found anyone - even here - who had any idea what to do with it, what it was good for, or how to use it. But that's generally what I need, a Sharepoint portal that a non-techie can easily populate and maintain.
Will Rogers never met me.
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SharePoint: Lotus Notes for idiots.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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The multi-phasic wrongness of your statement is offensive on so many levels, the entire space-time continuum is wretching.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Good one, that is like new signature material there, Gary!
"I've seen more information on a frickin' sticky note!" - Dave Kreskowiak
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I am forced to use Sharepiss and Bloatus Goatse on a daily basis, so I speak from experience.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Roger Wright wrote: We had Sharepoint on our server at one point ... I never found anyone - even here - who had any idea what to do with it, what it was good for, or how to use it.
SharePoint is a packaged solution that can handle a small website, dashboard, calendar, event schedule, etc, that a non-developer can maintain easily. 
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Unfortunately, even a developer will weep tears of blood trying to make it do anything more than that.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Dan Neely wrote: Unfortunately, even a developer will weep tears of blood trying to make it do anything more than that.
If you want an out of the box solution it isn't bad. Customization is another kettle of fish.
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Unless you want to do deep customizations, SharePoint is easy to use, otherwise I would suggest Joomla or WordPress.
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It's just a front-end framework for faster & easier web development. If you are scared of css, bootstrap is the way to go  http://getbootstrap.com/[^]
Cheers,
Karthik
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