Corrected

I can't log in from my office PC anymore, user tells pilot fish. The log-in works from other computers, and fish himself can log in from the suspect machine, so fish is puzzled. "Then I noticed a little flicker in the username field just as he hit Enter to send credentials to the server," fish says. "In a minute, I was able to confirm my suspicions: My colleague had installed a memory-resident spell checker that had determined that his username was a spelling error -- and was 'correcting' it before sending it on to the server."

D'oh!

E-mail server goes down, and panicked sales director calls IT pilot fish in desperation. "You have to get the e-mail fixed, because there is something I must tell my West Coast sales manager today!" We're working on it, fish says, but in the meantime, can't you telephone or fax the sales manager? Pause. "I would have thought of that, honest. Thanks, goodbye!"

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