[00:16]  * ball hopes that translates to "no problem" ;-)
[00:44] <IdleOne> both Laferrière and LaFerrierre would be correct.
[00:45] <IdleOne> I guess it is just a matter of preference on how you want your name spelled. Legally there is no difference if you capitalize the F or not.
[00:47] <IdleOne> you could capitalize every other letter. Would be annoying.
[00:47] <ball> Heh.
[00:47] <ball> I may start doing that
[00:47] <ball> bAlL
[00:48] <ball> looks too much like "bail",
[00:48] <IdleOne> I'm not posting it for you.
[00:48] <IdleOne> :P
[00:53] <ball> I'll probably get an email from the boss tomorrow telling me that I did it wrong. :-/
[02:17] <ball> Ah well.
[02:31]  * ball thinks about Canada
[02:41] <DarwinSurvivor> ball: any particular reason you don't just leave it in all caps? It's not like the customer can really complain, *they* spelled it that way!
[02:42] <DarwinSurvivor> I definitely would not change the letters themselved (removing r's, etc). People with particularly spelled names tend to get testy when you "correct" them.
[02:43] <ball> DarwinSurvivor: The work order comes from someone within the sales department here, not from the customer.
[02:45] <DarwinSurvivor> I'd take it up with sales then (ask if that's how the customer sent it). The LAST thing you want to do is be the person that erroneously "corrected" spelled someone's previously-correct name.
[02:46] <DarwinSurvivor> it also saves your butt if the mis-spelling causes a shipping/cataloguing/etc problem down the road. If you religiously copy-paste all names, they can't blame you when it's wrong
[02:49] <ball> This one's known as a source of dodgy work orders. I sent a clarifying email to the (a?) Canadian manager and CCd the salesperson on it, mentioning that the name was provided to us in ALL CAPS. Ambiguity isn't a helpful thing.
[03:08] <DarwinSurvivor> Time to teach the sales guys how to use copy/paste!
[03:14] <ball> DarwinSurvivor: At least she didn't send me a scan of a fax.  I got one of those yesterday.
[04:11] <ball> hello BobJonkman
[04:12] <BobJonkman> Hi ball!
[15:53] <BobJonkman> Hello everybodeee!  Is there anyone in the Vancouver area that can provide some pro bono tech support on a Mac? It's for Jon Newton, of P2PNet fame, who has some vision problems, and is having some problems setting up URL mirroring in Identi.ca He's posted some details here:  http://www.myblogdammit.net/?p=2626
[17:05] <DarwinSurvivor> If he comes back and I miss him, can someone suggest he also talk to the Mozilla guys, there's not much the OS can do about accesibility on websites, but the browser sure can!