Rich information is sometimes just a matter of digging a bit deeper...

MLL Telecom - 10 November 2010

A part of me is of a technical persuasion, this really isn't easy. The world constantly innovates, changes, resumes, reboots or drops into boot loader. Typically the IPL gets corrupted on a Friday night on the eve of a desperately needed long bank holiday weekend. The other day I found a root kit that had shadowed the BIOS, reordered the interrupt vectors, reformatted my FAT drive into NTFS, and then magically encrypted it with triple AES. My database then went haywire and the polyinstatiation process that was designed to support Bell Lapadula spawned thousands of new relations.

Oops! I have slipped into techy language, or Double Dutch if you prefer. For your enjoyment here is an example of what Double Dutch looks like:

IcdnuoltblveieetahtIcluodaulacltyuesdnatnrdwahtIwasrdaniegThephaonmnealpweorofthehmuanmnidAoccdrnigto rscheearchtaemaCmabrigdeUinervtisyitdeosn'tmttaerinwahtoredrtheltteersinawrodaretheolnyiprmoatnttihngist ahtthefristandlsatltteerbeintherghitpclaeThersetcanbeataotlmsesandyoucansitllraeditwouthitaporbelmTihsis bcuseaethehuamnmniddeosnotraederveylteterbyistlefbutthewrod asawloheSuchacdonitionisarp
poiatelycllaedTypoglycemia

This looks like a really tough language, maybe even harder than Spanish. However it is not really the language that is the problem. The problem is simply the presentation of the information. Look at it carefully again:

I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid Aoccdrnig to rscheearch taem at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Such a cdonition is arppoiately cllaed Typoglycemia

Amzanig huh? Yaeh and yuo awlyas thought slpeling was ipmotrnat!

What I am trying to illustrate in this blog entry is that discovery of rich information is sometimes just a matter of digging a bit deeper, and presentation really does matter to our brains. I will pick up this thread in my next blog...

MLL Blogger: Simon Banks - NOC Systems Specialist

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