2 September 2010

Network Dictionary – Magic Hand Wave

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Arthur C. Clarke, “Profiles of The Future”, 1961 (Clarke’s third law)

Refers to those times when a colleague says “let me fix that” and proceeds to issue a string of commands on the keyboard (thus waving hands about) and then says “there you go”.

I call this the “magic hand wave”. This was picked up by management in some companies and is now the standard term for describing “technical work”.

In discussion, “John can do his magic hand wave, and that work will be complete”.

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About Greg Ferro
Greg is a Network and Security Architect / Designer / Engineer working freelance in the UK and worked for Resellers, DotCom's, Large Corporate's and Service Providers across a variety of products & Vendors. He prefers to work for end users, believes in the life cycle, total cost of ownership and that near enough is often good enough. He likes talking about himself in the first person to feel "royal", even when hosting the Packet Pushers Podcast on Data Networking. More about Greg at http://etherealmind.com/who-am-i/ and you can follow him on Twitter.

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