atw: Re: Editors conference in Sydney, Sept 2011

  • From: Bill Parker <renew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2011 18:26:00 +0800

It might be tech word Lana but according to Wikitionary:

From Robert Bork, rejected US Supreme Court nominee

[edit] Verb

Bork (third-person singular simple present Borks, present participle Borking, 
simple past and past participle Borked)

        • (US, politics) To defeat a judicial nomination through a concerted 
attack on the nominee's character, background and philosophy.  [quotations ▼]
        • (US, politics) To fire an honest government official in an attempt to 
prevent embarrassment to and exposure of a dishonest government officeholder 
who has conspired to commit high crimes (term first used by the National 
Lampoon Radio Hour in to describe the 1973 firing of Watergate Special 
Prosecutor Archibald Cox by Solicitor General Robert Bork in the "Saturday 
Night Massacre" orchestrated by Bork and President Richard Nixon).

So if the doyens of the IT world use it as their own,  good luck to them. 

Bill


On 08/08/2011, at 6:11 PM, Lana Brindley wrote:

> It's a very common word in tech circles. It comes from a common typo
> of the word "broken" ("borken"), and is sometimes represented with a 0
> (zero) instead of an o. Similar 'spurious' origins as w00t, pr0n,
> fail, and other internet niceties.
> 
> When we refer to websites or programs being 'borked' it means that it
> is not working as expected, usually in fairly big and obvious ways
> (smaller or more subtle problems are usually called 'bugs' and the
> program is described as 'buggy'). It is often used to describe the
> appearance of the site or program, for this reason.
> 
> But yes, I admit we all took that idea and well and truly ran with it,
> citing "borkage", "borkiness", and "borkedness" in this email thread
> ;)
> 
> L
> 
> On 8 August 2011 19:54, Neil Maloney <maloneyn@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Advert to:
>> 
>> http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=xx-bork
>> 
>> Neil.
>> 
>> 
>> On 8/08/2011 7:50 PM, bja wrote:
>> 
>> Are you lot borking mad? What’s with the sudden overuse of this strange word
>> (yes I looked it us and am aware of its spuious origins).
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> When did it first pop up on this list?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Egad,! For bork sake, must we promote every weird ‘trendy’ little word?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> <sigh>
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Bruce
>> 
>> :)
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> ________________________________
>> 
>> From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> [mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Geoffrey Marnell
>> Sent: Monday, 8 August 2011 10:01 AM
>> To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: atw: Re: Editors conference in Sydney, Sept 2011
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> But Neil, is that borking? Or just plain inconsistent tabular lay-out? In
>> other words, is it Dreamweaver or the coder?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Cheers
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Geoffrey Marnell
>> 
>> Principal Consultant
>> 
>> Abelard Consulting Pty Ltd
>> 
>> T: +61 3 9596 3456
>> 
>> F: +61 3 9596 3625
>> 
>> M: 0419 574 668
>> 
>> W: www.abelard.com.au
>> 
>> Skype: geoffrey.marnell
>> 
>> From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> [mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Neil Maloney
>> Sent: Monday, August 08, 2011 9:57 AM
>> To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: atw: Re: Editors conference in Sydney, Sept 2011
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Have a look at the main page ... same bars of colour but they fit in better
>> for how that page is set up.
>> 
>> Neil.
>> 
>> 
>> On 8/08/2011 9:45 AM, Lana Brindley wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Geoffrey,
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Hmmm ... maybe it's meant to be like that? I thought those extra bars
>> 
>> of colour (marked in new attachment) weren't meant to be there.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> L
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 8 August 2011 09:34, Geoffrey Marnell <geoffrey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>> Thanks Lana, but it looks exactly the same in IE 8. Where is the borkiness?
>> 
>> It's not the prettiest design, but where is the mis-rendering? Or is it
>> 
>> borked is a way other than poorly rendered HTML?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Cheers
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Geoffrey Marnell
>> 
>> Principal Consultant
>> 
>> Abelard Consulting Pty Ltd
>> 
>> T: +61 3 9596 3456
>> 
>> F: +61 3 9596 3625
>> 
>> M: 0419 574 668
>> 
>> W: www.abelard.com.au
>> 
>> Skype: geoffrey.marnell
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> 
>> From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> 
>> [mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Lana Brindley
>> 
>> Sent: Monday, August 08, 2011 9:22 AM
>> 
>> To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> 
>> Subject: atw: Re: Editors conference in Sydney, Sept 2011
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Hey Geoffrey,
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> I'm not sure what Jean is seeing, of course, but I can see some
>> 
>> borkedness (Google Chrome 13.0.782.107 on Fedora 15). Picture
>> 
>> attached.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> L
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 8 August 2011 08:56, Geoffrey Marnell <geoffrey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Jean
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> I could find no borking on the first web site. Can you point out the
>> 
>> problem (and tell us how it's related to Dreamweaver rather than, say, to
>> 
>> Spry). We do bucket loads of Dreamweaver work here and would be keen to know
>> 
>> what to avoid.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Cheers
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Geoffrey Marnell
>> 
>> Principal Consultant
>> 
>> Abelard Consulting Pty Ltd
>> 
>> T: +61 3 9596 3456
>> 
>> F: +61 3 9596 3625
>> 
>> M: 0419 574 668
>> 
>> W: www.abelard.com.au
>> 
>> Skype: geoffrey.marnell
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> 
>> From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> 
>> 
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