Random IMs - Groping of Eden

Kemp: there's a painting of the garden of eden with adam trying to stop eve taking the apple from the tree. just looks like he's grabbing her breast
Overlord: "Just a bit of harmless fun"
Overlord: (drums)
Kemp: http://www.fictionwise.com/knight/titian.adam&eve.jpg
Kemp: there we go
Overlord: hahahaha
Overlord: "Let's see, grab the arm and physically stop her, or cop a feel. Hmmm"
Kemp: "we're screwed anyway, go for the breast"

Power Feature

On the morning of Saturday 16th February, work will be carried out to connect up the new mains cable. As with last night, our aim is to maintain a full IT service as far as is possible, but (as already stated) there are some attendant risks and some temporary service interruptions could be a feature.

(emphasis mine)

It does sound like the standard cry of "it's not a bug, it's a feature!" and it amused me for a moment or two. Unfortunately, the programming definition of a feature isn't the global definition. A quick Google search gives me:

• a prominent aspect of something; "the map showed roads and other features"
• have: have as a feature; "This restaurant features the most famous chefs in France"

which make more sense.

Still, I was amused.

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