dataveillance

is basically based on analyzing information gathered about you through use of technology and using it against you.

dataveillance is another stab in the back that technology brought upon our privacy.

by le1 February 27, 2008

Pygmalion complex

The desire to create or work on someone, something until it's perfect.

Some plastic surgeons have Pygmalion complex
(while working on their patients).

by le1 December 12, 2007

code reading

This is what psychics do to you on their séances. Trying to make some sort of connection between you and your significant other by saying some words and asking you: "Does that make any sense to you?"

Code reading example: I've got sb giving me the name Charles is anybody here who knows sb by the name of Charles?

by le1 February 28, 2008

noggins

1. The human head
2. The uppermost part of the body

we're still scratchin' our noggins after figuring out what he's done

by le1 November 09, 2007

if push came to shove

When the position you're in is so disastrous that something has to be done to improve it. Otherwise it may come to an end.

Freddie and Fannie... yet have survived under the implicit understanding that the US Government will always bail them out if push came to shove...

BBC news

by le1 September 07, 2008

Blockers

Major bugs in software development that have to be fixed before release of RC or even final product.

Blockers have to be fixed before shifting to another phase of SD.

by le1 March 08, 2008

first fear not relieved

condition appear when certain factors during infancy & childhood are not met

lack of affection during infancy inflicts first fear not relieved condition.

by le1 October 15, 2007