Getting fizzical

More from the seemingly unending supply of ridiculous project names.

Stephen Judd of ABNAmro says that when he worked at ITNet, a project to produce promotional footballs for Coca Cola was called Project Tart because the balls were made in Lahore.

Phill Legard recalls his days at Commodore UK. At the first UK Amiga Developer's conference, development manager Neil Katin referred to a variable called Funkyb. Very Amiga, Phill thought, until he found out that the variable was revenge from the development team, who didn't much like their manager. The two middle initials, N and K, stand for the manager's name.

The last two call into question his parentage. We leave the rest to your imagination.

We expect this sort of behaviour from Commodore, but the BBC? John Dickson at GMTV recalls his time in BBC sports, where an early captioning process was cunningly named the Action Replay Symbol Equipment.