You know... "nois fopro toa sutafo"!
OK, don't strain too hard... it means nothing! It is a shortened version of my favorite saying. I wanted to be sure that it had no actual meaning... did not want to offend anyone... and it seemed vaguely Portuguese, so I sent it to a friend in Brazil to check. He assures me that it has no meaning at all, expect that some of the words seem vaguely Portuguese as I thought. If you are aware of any meaning that I should know about, please let me know!
So why, you may ask, would you pick that silly title??? Well, my favorite saying is "Nothing is Foolproof to a Sufficiently Tallented Fool!" That is the story of my life! I love to find a different way to break something that someone thinks is unbreakable! Or find a way to do something that someone else says can not be done. Or look at some idea from some crazy perspective. It gives me endless hours of pleasure to look at a problem in some totally different light.
Then when I try to explain it to someone... their eyes glaze over... my voice becomes a drone... My wife tells me to listen for someone to start saying "Ah-huh"... "Ah-huh"... A sure sign that we have parted minds.
With this blog you do not have to say "Ah-huh"... just close it when it starts to drone in your head...
Alright! and Charlie starts what is soon to be the most famous blog on the net!
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to those esoteric and entertaining topics that your so well known for.
Welcome to Scroggles Sir!! Glad to have you on board.
ReplyDeleteI don't expect to get bored very often as your explanations may be a drone to some, I usually find them fascinating, so I look forward to reading what you thinking about.
Shouldn't that be nois fopro toa sufunta fo AKA Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently un-talented fool? A QA friend of mine, Don Oviatt, pointed out that UAT is always run wrong, i.e. the best users are selected to do the testing. WRONG! They are the ones that will figure out the workarounds and get through the issues. Ergo, less issues documented and therefore addressed PRIOR to release to general public. Rather one should pick the untalented to do UAT in order to uncover general public usability issues...
ReplyDeleteAh... the tester's ploy... The team wants as few mistakes as possible to look good, but then more get out to the users! The tester wants to break as many things as possible so that the problems do not get to the users.
ReplyDeleteCathy is right in terms of talent with the product... the saying, however is talking about a talent for breaking things. I guess that, in a sense, if a user is untalented on the product they will be more talented at breaking it!
right.. you want good testers not good users... but a good tester must also be a good user too because he not only finds what's wrong with the software but shows how it can become better... to know what better he is must be a good user.
ReplyDeleteBad testers are basically people who really just pay no attention to detail and merely want to get the job done... like me :-)