From: James Britt Date: 2006-11-12T02:30:25+09:00 Subject: Re: looking for some feedback about Certification dblack@wobblini.net wrote: > Hi -- > > On Sat, 11 Nov 2006, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: > >> James Britt wrote: >> >>> Jamis' comment on Pat's blog, though, hit the nail on the head in >>> pointing out that anything called a "certificate" will carry >>> linguistic and work-culture baggage. >> >> And in some corporate cultures, certification is a political >> necessity. By the way, while we're on the subject of certifications >> and corporate cultures, am I the only one who thinks someone who has >> an "ABD" -- All But Dissertation" PhD is really only a Master of Science? > > > When I was AbD I was a Master of Arts :-) Now a Master of the Black Arts. -- James Britt "To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence." - Friedrich Nietzsche