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Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Going forward, and more nonsense



GOING FORWARD.....
Am I the only person that hates the term going forward?
Nothing fills me with bile so quickly as the terminology of business speak, that counter intuitive nonsense which is circling the globe in texts, emails and online presentations as we sit here. Ernest Hemingway once said, "I am trying to make, before I get through, a picture of the world--or as much of it as I have seen. Boiling it down always, rather than spreading it out thin."
But in today's world a short phrase wont do, not in romantic Ireland where more is still more, at least in terms of political splurge.
Lets take a look at the tainistes comments to the leaders questions part of DailCity

"No one is in a position to say what adjustments are needed in next year's budget. However, we are clearly of the view that public sector reform is for the benefit of the citizens of this country and equally that rising (sic) from public sector reform we can clearly find savings which in themselves can be taken into consideration in the context of the adjustments we may make," she said.

Translation:
unknown...

What we say is not what we mean, or at least it would appear so, getting a straight answer from a politician may indeed be as difficult as finding a sun lounger in a German naturist camp after 8am on the Costa Del sol

There is a key for those among you who who cannot crack this DaVinchiesque bullshitcode it comes in the form of a program called Foggy. this was an IBM programmers joke designed to generate random sequences of manager speak, which to the untrained ear may indeed sound like sense. I include a random selection below, if anyone has a translation for it Id love to hear!

To approach true user-friendliness, the characterization of specific
criteria must utilize and be functionally interwoven with the
postulated use of dialog management technology. In respect to specific
goals, any associated supporting element is functionally equivalent and
parallel to any discrete configuration mode. Thus, a large portion of
interface coordination communication must utilize and be functionally
interwoven with the subsystem compatibility testing. For example, the
characterization of specific criteria affects a significant
implementation of the preliminary qualification limit. In particular,
the incorporation of additional mission constraints adds explicit
performance limits to the postulated use of dialog management
technology.

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