[ubuntu-uk] Zut, alors!

[Tony Travis]

Liam Proven wrote:
> [...]
> Embarrassingly, for a one-time biologist, it took me years to work out
> /why/ Microsoft became "Vole".
> 
> The British common field vole, you see, is technically called
> /Microtus agrestis/.
 > [...]

Hello, Liam.

Well, I'm a biologist turned bioinformatician and I didn't know about 
that either - but, I do have an excuse: I was a plant biologist ;-)

Bye,

	Tony.
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