Daily Archives: 8/2/2004

How not to impress a potential customer

When you’re a sale person, and you’re making a sales call, never insult the potential customer by saying “Well, we didn’t test with foo because you’re the only person in the world who uses it!” In this case foo was Firefox after a vendor’s webapp’s magic javascript didn’t work with it. Yes, IE has the [...]

Brodie (from Mallrats) was right!

From the Kevin Smith movie Mallrats: Brodie: Listen, not a year goes by, not a year, that I don’t hear about some escalator accident involving some bastard kid which could have easily been avoided had some parent – I don’t care which one – but some parent conditioned him to fear and respect that escalator. [...]