Month: January 2011

An extra “dot” in my e-mail address kept a friend from sending me an e-mail. Getting rid of the dot took care of it.

A comma in my User ID keeps me from “signing in.” Changing the comma to a period lets me in.

Tonight, a lack of corn meal and too much flour made flat-tasting corn bread and lack of tomato flavor made flat-tasting black beans. Adding barbecue sauce made by my son-in-law added delicious zest to the combination of beans and cornbread.

Little things do make a difference. I praise God that not one jot or tittle of His law and promises will pass away. His law says I have sinned. His promise says I am forgiven because I believe in Jesus Christ as Savior–and even that belief is a gift.

Has that belief changed your life? It can. Ask God for the faith to believe it. He will give it to you.

I knew what it was, but I wanted to see what Wikipedia said about it. I laughed and laughed about the explanations for PEBKAC and PICNIC I can really understand it, because often I type in a bad user ID, just because my typing is not always accurate. At other times, I have done something incorrectly and simply cannot find my error.

According to Wikipedia:

“A user error is an error made by the human user of a complex system, usually a computer system, in interacting with it. Although the term is sometimes used by Human Computer Interaction practitioners, the more formal human error term is used in the context of human reliability.
User Error and related phrases such as PEBKAC (“Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair”), PICNIC (“Problem In Chair Not In Computer”) or ID-10T error are also used as slang in technical circles with a derogatory meaning.[1][2] This usage implies a lack of computer savvy, asserting that problems arisen when using a device are the fault of the user.”

Want more trivia about it? Go directly to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_error

There are several lessons from life through the ID10T Error which I want to share at a later time.

The first is “Little things make a difference.” (to be continued).

Come back to this same place tomorrow, if you don’t know the definition of an “I D Ten T Error”.   I hope to be able to offer an explanation.