Internet cent-et-un

During a presentation I've attended last Friday some guy said it's easier for you to write code if your native language is English. Folks from other... points on the map may argue, but their Engrish is intelligible, so who can understand them anyway? Wait! Before anyone gets offended (I'll get to that in a bit) I don't agree with that guy (and now we can move on to some proper offense), but the French do.
There are many examples to easily dismiss the theory, and keep in mind in some cases even the alphabet is a lot different to the English one. But the French, being... well... French, decided it's true and in order to fix the discrepancy all things must be French-accessible. Which means that if you happen to have une carte mère or un souris that's not recognized by Fenêtres, you need to télécharge and installe les chauffeurs in order to make it work. Chances are you won't find them on Minitel though, and you'll still need to go on the Internet for them (if Al Gore is the father on the Internet, probably Pif or Rahan is the mother*).

This is a true story: about 7 years ago, during the times when sound was not onboard by default, I had bought a Muse card from Hercules. I remembered this story today, just like other people remember when they're 40 how their uncle used to touch them (7 years ago)...

If the guys at IBM that invented the hard-disk had worn berets and eaten baguettes, we'd probably have called them disques durs (and if they were invented today, we'd probably call them हार्ड डिस्क). Luckily for the rest of the world, they didn't. And this is why they're not pink and don't smell like flowers.
Let's just stick to hard-disk, a bit of consistency didn't kill anyone. My native language is not English, but it's easier to type hdd than looking for keyboard shortcuts for crazy letters or drawing nunchuck shapes that express the platter.
If you wonder if I'd ever work in France, the answer's "Hell, oui!". Good food, 50 days vacation and other 300 days off per year for various saints. Plus, it's safe, no hackers there; every piece of code starts with #include <sacrebleu.>, because the French don't believe in the letter h, and it crashes before interpreting GOTO virus vilain.

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* Fun fact: while you're on the internet, look for "find Chuck Norris" on Google.fr. The result will read "Le Google ne recherche d'Inspecteur Farfouille, car il sait que vous ne trouvez pas Inspecteur Farfouille, il vous trouve".
Remember to always use un pare-feu when you go on the Internet