WoTD: czechnology

czechnology: Using any means necessary to achieve a technology goal, often by employing ‘hackerly’ methods.

“After not getting any specific date from a local SONY Service and the need to ship the PSP to Prague, I decided to order the drive and apply czechnology.” — Jakub Steiner (who credits a neighbour with its coinage)

This entry was written by Jeff Waugh, posted on April 26, 2006 at 03:12, filed under Word of the Day. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

2 Comments

  1. Peteris Krisjanis
    Posted April 26, 2006 at 04:17 | Permalink

    What a new, geeky term :) And actually fits very well what it meant for :)

  2. Adriano
    Posted May 2, 2006 at 06:50 | Permalink

    This is what we Argentinians call “atarlo con alambre”, “tying with wire”. A nice metaphor for making do, yes. But czechnology is so much more to the point :)

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  1. By wolfgang.lonien.de on May 18, 2006 at 08:07

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