Dogs are amazing :-)

Bill Gates is staring at users every time they launch Outlook 2010, as Microsoft used his silhouette for the default contact picture coming within the app.

aka "Recovery from Apollo 14’s Abort switch failure"

Si tu es malheureux, c’est toi le problème

Le vilain petit canardComme dit plus haut, on finit par faire comprendre aux gens que ce sont eux le problème et jamais l’organisation. Et c’est justement là que les risques psychosociaux apparaissent. En effet cette dictature du bonheur induit une sensation de décalage entre l’entreprise et son salarié malheureux, ce qui renforce encore cette sensation de malheur. Et c’est ainsi qu’un cercle vicieux se crée, encore renforcé par le fait que le salarié malheureux ne trouve plus d’oreille prête à l’entendre, ni à l’intérieur de l’entreprise, ni à l’extérieur à cause de l’image cool renvoyée par l’entreprise.

When we don't "feel like it", we're often procrastinating because we're afraid of performing poorly.
Remove this pressure and "just do it" : poor quality work will get you started and in good condition to make something good.

Par Mehdi Zed, l'auteur de https://www.jesuisundev.com/ego-des-developpeurs/

- "pew, pew !"
- "zhhjummmm !"

Example :
- During World War II, some United States soldiers in the Pacific theater used the word lollapalooza as a shibboleth to challenge unidentified persons, on the premise that Japanese people often pronounce the letter L as R or confuse Rs with Ls. In Oliver Gramling's Free Men are Fighting: The Story of World War II (1942) the author notes that, in the war, Japanese spies would often approach checkpoints posing as American or Filipino military personnel. A shibboleth such as "lollapalooza" would be used by the sentry, who, if the first two syllables come back as rorra, would "open fire without waiting to hear the remainder".
- During the Allied breakout from the Normandy beachheads in 1944, hand-to-hand fighting occurred throughout the hedgerows and thick undergrowth of the Norman countryside. British and American troops were told to use the word "Thunderer" as a countersign through the thick foliage. Given the number of syllables and the leading "th" sound, it was believed that the word would invariably be mispronounced by native German speakers.
(MANY others on the linked page)

For those interested in the french definition + spelling :
- https://www.cnrtl.fr/definition/shiboleth
- https://www.cnrtl.fr/definition/schibboleth