Sunday afternoon I was writing some code on a work machine while logged into Lord of the Rings Online looking to get a group together to run some team-oriented in-game quests, and this usually involves just kind of hanging out for a while and pasting an occasional message into a “looking for group” type channel until something turns up.
I use a great little utility called Synergy to share a single keyboard and mouse across multiple machines; I can change which machine I’m interacting with by dragging the mouse pointer offscreen to make it jump to the other side. It also allows the cut-and-paste of text between boxes. This is a very convenient arrangement, but I’ve found an inherent danger: mis-pasting. When I compiled and ran the application I was working on, I was surprised to see the following:
