On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 07:58 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
I'm not much into cars, but my neighbor was and he came over when he saw I was having trouble. He popped the hood, looked down at my battery cables, gave them a few smacks with a hammer and said "try again". The car started just fine. I looked at the guy and said "this never happened before". He looked me straight in the eye and said, "just because something worked just fine yesterday doesn't mean it work the next day".
Reminds of that story doing the round about Sony changing the Windows error messages for their VAIO laptops to use haikus. One of them being, "Yesterday it worked, today it does not, Windows is like that."