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Your shortcut to ultimate oblivion
More opinions on Antony Hawkins and the Ultimate Journey Planner software. As several of you pointed out last week, the random directions it tended to throw out would indeed create the ultimate journey.
Dr Paul Daniels at QSoft has a few design ideas: ‘It is a planner that, by default, randomly chooses a route to one’s demise but, to add a playful element of chance, it does not let you know which of the journeys it advises will be the last one.
‘This type of highly functional software usually has a hidden shortcut key that provides a set of administrative options: just untick the ‘Surprise Journey?’ checkbox and other controls will immediately become visible for those in a hurry to take the Ultimate Journey.
‘These allow selection of the manner of your passing, a specific time, or perhaps a generic definition of the event. There is also the set of slider bars on the Preferences tab of the “Going, Going, Gone” dialog box.’
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