The industry’s hopeless addiction to acronyms means that we will soon have to abandon the Roman alphabet and switch to Japan’s Kata Kana, which gives a basic subset of 2,000 to choose from: who were the ignorami out of the George Bush mode who were so narrowly focussed that they’d never heard of an automatic teller machine (subscribers will recall that the outgoing President had never encountered a supermarket scanner) and thought that ATM made a super available acronym for both Adobe Type Manager and Asynchronous Transfer Mode? Now some clown afflicted with such seriously arrested development that he thinks Star Wars was a movie intended for adults, seems to think it a great wheeze to style Microsoft Corp’s new Windows for Workgroups W4Wg.
