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OK, Who Thinks They're Little Bobby Tables?
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What an excellent idea. Sure there must be some major systems crap enough to messed up by this sort of thing.
Hardly major but I found my shopping cart had problems on rare occasions, I'd forgotten to allow for quotes in names like O'Brian when inserting in MySQL.bloggoth
If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'
John Wayne (My guru, not to be confused with my beloved prophet Jeremy Clarkson) -
I like the "true story" of the man whose name was null. (Did this come from Monday links?)
flex - How to pass "Null" (a real surname!) to a SOAP web service in ActionScript 3? - Stack Overflow
We all have a duty to name our children in such a way that maximises work for contractors.Comment
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I worked for a major retailer whose EDI system read the word "TUNA" (as in tins of tuna) in an EDI message and took the "UNA" as the start of the next EDI message.
This was back in the 90s though. I'm sure it couldn't happen now....Comment
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That's very good. An old 'un, but a good 'un.
Shame it wasn't sent to the web monkeys of TalkTalk.
qhLast edited by quackhandle; 30 December 2016, 17:51.He had a negative bluety on a quackhandle and was quadraspazzed on a lifeglug.
I look forward to your all knowing and likely sarcastic and unhelpful reply.
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