Andy's Techie Blog

As way of apology i thought i’d link to Matt McSpirit’s blog

Why the appology?

I left a comment on his post “SCVMM – the worlds longest acronym?” saying that SCVMM isn’t actually an acronym

RAM, RAID (pun not intentional), ROM and BIOS are all examples of acronyms as they form a new noun

Random Access Memory = RAM

BBC, HDD, IDE and SCVMM are initialisms

It’s one of the obsessive things that gets on my nerves as the computing industry always reffers to them as acronyms

So just wanted to let him know i’m lightly pulling his leg

I’m going to add you to the blogroll as well!

Also i’ll probably get corrected by the might of a hundred english teachers now…..and i probably deserve it!

Look! Sources and everything!
http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/initialism?view=uk

http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/acronym?view=uk

I dont post many off topic posts but i had to do this one

Last night i went to see Ricky Gervais at the NIA in Birmingham with my brother.

He was only on for just over an hour but we laughed all the way through!

The tour is called Fame so as you can imagine several celebs “got it”

I never really got the Office or Extras but his stand-up is fantastic!

This will probably be my last post for a while as i’m planning on enjoying my break!

Found a game this morning called Qwerty Warriors (i think)

 The idea of the game is to shoot the oncoming enemy by typing a word that appears under their name

Wish i had this when i was first learning to use a keyboard!

Joking aside it’s a great learning tool as you have to look at the screen to make sure you can read what to type and you have to be accurate or you get shot!

I gave it a go on the easy level and finished with the following

Score: 59560

Correct Words: 333

Incorrect Words: 9

Accuracy: 97%

Total with Accuracy bonus: 60470

Not too bad i think. I did find that as i started to get a couple wrong and was getting shot i got into a bit of a panic and my accuracy got worse!

Good fun though!