Greetings. After a recent "discrimination complaint" from an employee here in Los Angeles County, the county sent out a notice requesting that all vendors to the county cease using the terms "master" and "slave" on their products. This terminology has of course been standard in the computer and other technology industries for many years (take a look at the configuration labeling on most any disk drive, for example).

But what's the logical next step? Well, presumably a ban could be instituted against the terms "male" and "female" used to describe most connectors, plugs, sockets, and the like. After all (the Politically-Correct Police would argue) the obvious relationship between those terms and the shapes of the associated components can only be regarded as obscene.

That's all for this flog, uh, blog entry.

--Lauren--