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IT Skills Unfit for the Home: Page 2 of 19

  • Ken Ritchie

  • Never patch a roof as many times as MicroSoft before you replace the roof.

    Pete Cunningham

  • Establishing a pattern of naming all of your descendants after the moons in this solar system

    Chuck Huffman

  • performing unattended backups in your drive

    Erik Dauplaise

    1. Trying to restart/reset your spouse with three fingers.
    2. Defragmenting the rocks in your fish's bowl.
    3. Picking your baby's name because it looks cool using the Symbol font.
    4. Anything SCSI.

    5. Using WYSIWYG in a personal ad.
    6. Having a relationship database instead of a little black book.
    7. Sex over IP (SoIP?).
    8. Scheduling your bathroom breaks with Kronos.
    9. Building a web-interface to communicate with your children.
    10. Refering to your past as an archive.
    11. Try to create a perfect mate by cutting & pasting.

    Ray Gauthier

  • Mention that you do Windows