Comments on: Worst conference acronymn ever? MOIST http://www.brokenbuild.com/blog/2007/06/03/worst-conference-acronymn-ever-moist/ Databases, code and all things agile. Sat, 31 Jul 2010 08:57:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Mark http://www.brokenbuild.com/blog/2007/06/03/worst-conference-acronymn-ever-moist/#comment-93197 Mark Sun, 07 Jun 2009 00:01:34 +0000 http://www.brokenbuild.com/blog/2007/06/03/worst-conference-acronymn-ever-moist/#comment-93197 <p>American Symphony Orchestra leagues is better ASOL I am a member and can't say I enjoy bragging that I attend the annual national "asshole" (phonetic) convention every year!!!</p> American Symphony Orchestra leagues is better ASOL I am a member and can’t say I enjoy bragging that I attend the annual national “asshole” (phonetic) convention every year!!!

]]> By: Matt Michie http://www.brokenbuild.com/blog/2007/06/03/worst-conference-acronymn-ever-moist/#comment-23224 Matt Michie Sun, 03 Jun 2007 16:12:03 +0000 http://www.brokenbuild.com/blog/2007/06/03/worst-conference-acronymn-ever-moist/#comment-23224 <p>If they were smart, they would call it the Montreal International Software Testing (MIST) conference. That took me about 2 seconds to come up with because it is the obvious way to create an acronym, and it has the secondary effect of being a valid word and the tertiary effect of being a pleasant word.</p> <p>In other words, someone went out of their way to name this conference MOIST. From this, I conclude that Canadians hate testing.</p> If they were smart, they would call it the Montreal International Software Testing (MIST) conference. That took me about 2 seconds to come up with because it is the obvious way to create an acronym, and it has the secondary effect of being a valid word and the tertiary effect of being a pleasant word.

In other words, someone went out of their way to name this conference MOIST. From this, I conclude that Canadians hate testing.

]]>