30 Mar
2005
30 Mar
'05
1:31 p.m.
In Queensland it's pronounced to rhyme with judge,
I've also picked up the 'klduge' spelling and pronounciation. When I've
got some piece of hardware going by dead-bugging in a totally different
chip, of when I've manange to get 2 machines talking to each other by
cutting an RS232 cable in half and joining the wires with a chocolate
block [1], I've been known to paraody a line of Gilbert and Sulivan
'For I have a kludge, and a good kludge too' :-)
[1] One of those plastic screw terminal blocks. Don't laugh, I actually
did this once when I had to get two machines communicating and all I had
was a pair of pliers and a small screwdriver...
-tony