Comments on: Note to startups: Turn off “track changes”

By: Shane

Shane — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:55:42 +0000

This was too funny. I was working on a document and trying to get the comments out and stumbled across this page.

Luckily not as disastrous a consequence, but funny none the less.

By: Shane

Shane — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:55:42 +0000

This was too funny. I was working on a document and trying to get the comments out and stumbled across this page.

Luckily not as disastrous a consequence, but funny none the less.

By: Dave Carter

Dave Carter — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 00:28:31 +0000

At a former employer, a friend didn't notice that the spellchecker had done a global replace on “engr” (an abbreviation of “engineer”) with the word “negro” before he sent it to a very wide distribution list. Hilarious result in many of the replacements, as you can imagine….

By: Buy Business Note

Buy Business Note — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:34:46 +0000

Very good tip. I would have never thought that such a small thing could cause such a major problem. Sometimes we have too much technology for our own good

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Tue, 20 May 2008 21:12:23 +0000

[...] Posted on May 20, 2008 by Jonathan Dunn A few days ago Matthew Ingram has a post about a group of intrepid entrepreneurs who neglected to ‘accept changes’ on their [...]