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And the winners are…
It being the end of the year, we’d like to say thanks to you for filling Backbytes with your informed, amusing or just abusive email. That’s why we’d like to offer our awards for 2004.
Best waste of time: We were briefly entertained by your stories of ancient computers that could be persuaded to play songs when you fed them with the correct punched card. But seeing as anyone under 50 is unlikely ever to have seen one, this is a pleasure denied to most of us. So the best waste of time this year was the challenge to make up your own IT epitaph, which kept you going for three months. For those who found it all too much effort, Tony Holroyd’s suggestion: ‘This stone intentionally left blank’.
Most pointless argument: We were tempted to pick the debate on whether you can use a mobile phone on an aeroplane, and if not, why not. In the end, we think the best idea was an anonymous suggestion from a reader: ‘Maybe airlines should allow people who want to try their phones in flight to step outside to use them.’
Certainly the powerful arguments on what the plural of mouse mat should be gave us great pleasure, but we preferred Wayne Carter’s poser: is one of those fun-sized Twixes with one bar in really a Unix?
Silliest survey: The survey that showed that 95 per cent of advertising and marketing professionals have had an office affair, but only 54 per cent had done so in IT was certainly poignant. Instead, we choose the survey that showed that 75 per cent of people would tell a stranger conducting a survey their password in exchange for a bar of chocolate. As reader Chris Osborne points out, this proves that 25 per cent are too stupid to make up a fake password to get free chocolate.
Most disgusting activity: The all-you-can-eat lunchtime buffet at Pizza Hut, where unless you can get at least 16 slices in, you don’t even get a Backbytes mention. Enjoy Christmas lunch.
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