I have a sister in law. She's a pretty nice person. She's a doctor who works in a hospital. Apparently there's this software system in the hospital that doctor's use to prescibe medication. She can't use it. Because her name has an Irish spelling. In other words, her last name has an apostrophe. You know, like Paddy O'Drinksalot. Or Seamus O'Beatwife.
She types in that little tick -- ' -- and this wonderfully convenient program barfs all over like a patient on too much
ipecac.
She tells this happy little story of medical wonderment --- and me? I get a little twitchy. Because that's the sort of thing that makes me question the future of mankind. In response to this story I ranted for several minutes about lazy programmers, lack of quality control and why Kuala Lumpur will be smarter than America in two years.
It's enough to make a kitten cry.