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December 10, 2003

The new black

Lorem Ipsum is so yesterday. The malevole text generator is the new black.

Posted by michael at December 10, 2003 08:45 AM

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I think one might be better off to stick with Lorem Ipsum; no one is tempted to actually READ that! Man, this stuff was a kick! Had to stop generating new paragraphs. Hmm....but it would be fun to plop some of that in the middle of a wad of documentation and see if anyone actually DOES read it :-)

Posted by: Joe Litton at December 11, 2003 06:50 AM

Adding "Are you really reading this?" material in documentation is always fun. A friend of mine who is a Captain in the Army, was assigned to a medical unit and had to produce LOTS of documentation about everything his group encountered. He realized that no one ever asked him questions about his reports. So, he started inserting reports of male soldiers receiving wounds to female body reports or vice-versa on occasion. It took a long time for someone (who wasn't even responsible for reading the reports) to notice it!

Posted by: Michael Braly at December 11, 2003 07:34 AM