Not a good day for me…

From a factual standpoint, yesterday wasn’t one of my banner days.

First, I did the thing I hate the most - mentioned a name incorrectly in Penguin

Shell. I noted that “Scott Goyo” had offered the services of eTapestry.com for the
Penguin Shell volunteer project. Well, we may have a reader named Scott Goyo,
but he’s not yet sent me an email, nor is he a founder of eTapestry. That would
be Scott Ganyo. If you take a look at *my* last name and make a guess as to how
many times it’s been misspelled and mispronounced, you have some idea of both
how much I dislike name misspellings and how bad I feel when I do it myself. I
stand corrected - quietly - eyes cast to the floor.

I also fell victim to that doggone Linux acronym bug yesterday. Several of you
(as in “more than 8 and less than 100″) corrected the ping reference. Quoting
from the site of ping’s author, Mike Muuss:

Yes, it’s true! I’m the author of ping for UNIX. Ping is a little
thousand-line hack that I wrote in an evening which practically
everyone seems to know about. :-)

I named it after the sound that a sonar makes, inspired by the whole
principle of echo-location. In college I’d done a lot of modeling of
sonar and radar systems, so the “Cyberspace” analogy seemed very apt.
It’s exactly the same paradigm applied to a new problem domain: ping
uses timed IP/ICMP ECHO_REQUEST and ECHO_REPLY packets to probe the
“distance” to the target machine.

It just goes to show - not everything in Linux is an acronym.

Have a great Tuesday.

See you in August