Friday, November 18, 2005

And now for something completely different

For some reason today one of my colleagues showed us how if you enter certain characters in Microsoft Word, the result is hundreds of pages of "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." This is, of course, the standard sentence used in typing classes (in the States at least) because it includes all 26 letters. How he found this out, I have no idea, but what was really interesting is that he shared with us the German equivalent: "Franz jagt im komplett verwahrlosten Taxi quer durch Bayern." Type that 10 times quickly. So there's something I can honestly say I never expected to learn...