Bonus Entry - What's with the Name?

The name of the web site actually is part of a tech horror story, but it's very fitting for this type of a blog.

A man calls in to his computer manufacturer to get some tech support. The technician takes his information and finds out what kind of computer he has and asks him what his problem is.

The man calmly tells the tech, "My cup holder is broken." This leaves the tech wondering but thinking perhaps he didn't hear him correctly.

"Excuse me, sir, but can you repeat that?"

"My cup holder is broken!"

The technician, scratching his head and pondering furiously, can't wrap his head around what the man is talking about. "Sir, computers don't come with cup holders.", he explains.

"You must be some sort of an idiot. Of course computers have a cup holders!"

"Sir, what exactly are you using on your computer as a cup holder?"

"Every morning, I turn on my computer, push a button and a tray pops out where I put where I put my coffee cup through. But now it's not working!"

The technician is horrified at the man's explanation and tries to keep from banging his head on his desk from the man's idiocy. "Sir, that's not a cup holder. That's a CD-Rom drive. You put CDs in there to play music or install programs."

That's one of my all-time favorite tech stories.