Just for fun, here's a small list of excuses I've been compiling over the last couple of years from the various companies and people who make up the community that we are all part of. We're used to hearing them constantly, are we not? Not all of these excuses are without basis but all were funny at the time. No company names or people will be mentioned. See if you can match excuse to person, group or company. :-)
1) We have been mailbombed by viruses and large files.
2) Our supplier slipped the delivery by two weeks with the usual "take it or leave it" attitude.
3) A plow cut our T1 line.
4) We're moving to a new server.
5) Our server was hit by lightning.
6) We're on holiday and after that changing office.
7) The compiler generated buggy code with optimizations enabled.
We won't ship to protest against the war.
9) We got snowed in, so can't do that until later in the week.
10) We didn't make the GUI purely aesthetically pleasing and chose those colours because we were designing it with colour-blind people in mind.
11) We'll send out your vouchers as soon as the product is shipping.
12) It was only slow because the debug level was turned up to 10.
13) The data corruption was probably caused by a bad install of Linux, not from the board itself.
14) You can only make a good first impression once, so we gave up.
15) Our northbridge is buggy, not the board.
16) Smart refresh uses too much memory.
17) We have virtual memory implemented but won't waste time testing it because RAM is cheap.
18) We have much more important things to support than floppy, 3D, TV-out and firewire.
19) We're having some DNS troubles.
20) The RDB-wiping code can only be triggered by people trying to pirate our software.
21) 3D games are boring anyway.
Edit: 22) This site is biased! (hehe)
