Lotus Notes Spell Check is Anti-Semitic...

Total credit for this discovery goes to SnowDog....

Apparently, IBM's Lotus Notes e-mail software is anti-semitic.

If you type the word(s) "non-phase" in an e-mail and spell check it, here is the suggestion:

Is there any context where someone typing "non-phase" might actually mean "non-Jews"?

IBM blogs about Twitter...

An IBM employee proclaims 2007 as the year of the "breaking out of Twitter".

"If you haven't used Twitter...then you missed one of the biggies of 2007."

Here's the article LINK.

I bet most of you DID miss out.

Shame on you.

One of your New Year's resolutions should be to start using Twitter.

Feel free to add me as a friend....


Also, I'll be in the Dominican Republic for the next week, so the rest of the Villagers will be blogging about life, the internet.com, and general stupidity in my place.

IBM protest in Second Life...

Second Life "is an Internet-based virtual world." Second Life users can "interact with each other through motional avatars, providing an advanced level of a social network service combined with general aspects of a metaverse. Residents can explore, meet other Residents, socialize, participate in individual and group activities, create and trade items (virtual property) and services from one another."

Apparently IBM decreased salaries in Italy and employees aren't happy. So, what are these angry employees going to do? Naturally, they are going to protest at the IBM facilities in Second Life, where IBM has a large corporate campus and marketing site. If you click on the link to IBM, you may even see some avatars from Second Life.

So, will this actually be effective? I guess the huge advantage to this is that employees can potentially strike while they are at work (being paid). I would think the problem with striking is that the money the employees lose in the immediate term for not working takes a while to make up with the (potential) wage increase obtained due to the strike.
Although, apparently there is an Italian strike. During this type of strike, employees come to work and do their jobs, but don't do any more than the minimum. So, perhaps this Second Life strike can be classified as an Italian (or work-to-rule) strike.

Either way, does IBM even care if computer generated beings that represent real people are striking in a virtual world?