data

Somewhere in the middle of my programming career my entire world got turned upside-down* when I got wind of "data" being a plural. WTF!

It was one of my morning white papers (I like to read white papers first thing, to get my brain working right), title along the lines of "something or other ... what the data say".


Like oh fuck erm, logic error! So when by brain reboots I go off in search of what the singular might be: Datum. Okay. Sounds like a job for sed, over the entire site, like right now, or else I be lookin' stupid.

Oh but wait, that's removing data which might be useful, down the line to you know, scientists. You can see when and where and how. Or else the sed, and it looks like I was smart all along.

Or do the sed and blog about it, later on.

;o)