In Internet forums and similar gatherings of cognoscenti, writers often use abbreviations for the sake of efficient self-expression. Here are some of the more common abbreviations you will encounter in Internet communications:
1. In Gilchrist County, Florida, just west of Waxworths Hobble, There’s a place in the sun Where the caraways run And the measuring spoonbills wobble.
Refrain: Oh, they wobble all day, And they wobble away Over gravel and pebble and cobble, In a place in the sun Where the caraways run Just west of Waxworths Hobble.
2. The tourists come from sixteen states to watch the spoonbills bobble Where they wobble away By the Circle K On the road through Waxworths Hobble.
Refrain.
3. But the caraways don’t care at all, and they plot and scheme to nobble All the tourist buses That cause all the fusses Where the measuring spoonbills wobble.
Refrain.
4. But a caraway is a small, small thing, and it can’t make too much trobble, So the tourists have fun While the caraways run And the measuring spoonbills wobble.
A Windows user asked this question, and Dr. Boli thought he would refer it to the Windows experts among his readers:
Is it bad if the top tasks in the Task Manager, sorted by “total disk utilization across all physical drives,” look like this? We can see that there are three instances of Windows Problem Reporting running at once and wearing down the drive quite a bit, while the most disk-hungry process is Windows Modules Installer Worker, which we suppose is installing another instance of Windows Problem Reporting.
Dr. Boli’s assumption was that this was just how Windows works. Perhaps it is reporting the useful diagnostic information that the computer is running Windows, which it correctly identifies as a problem. But someone who knows Windows better might be able to give us a more nuanced answer.
Yankee Doodle.—Because the facts of the case did not fit the meter or rhyme scheme, the musical biography of Yankee Doodle leaves out the important information that, on the same occasion when he stuck a feather in his cap and called it Macaroni, he also stuck a carnation in his lapel and called it Cheese.
