Pages tagged “software”

21 Nov 2012

Good dialog, bad dialog

A couple of dialog boxes I’ve encountered recently. One I liked (well done, Marketo), and one I didn’t (Microsoft). I used the spelling “dialog box” deliberately. I would tend to use dialogue, except when talking about dialog boxes in a software context. Here’s an interesting Google n-Gram showing the prevalence of related terms over the past century. ‘dialog’ vs ‘dialogue’ vs ‘dialog box’ vs ‘dialogue box’ Also pleased to see there is a StackExchange for English!

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06 Aug 2012

Lugging the 1's and 0's

A friend at Owlstone gave an exclamation of bemusement when he received this parcel, big enough to fit a good sized flat screen monitor. The contents? Another box, containing a CD-ROM, containing (in some sense) some 1’s and 0’s! dabs.com must have a very efficient back office or very high bandwidth costs to make this economical. It took several days from order to delivery, which I make to be roughly 0.

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