Blamestorming: Sitting around in a group discussing why a deadline was
missed or a project failed, and who was responsible.

Chainsaw Consultant: An outside expert brought in to reduce the employee
headcount, leaving the top brass with clean hands.

Cube Farm: An office filled with cubicles.

Ego Surfing: Scanning the Net, databases, print media and so on, looking for
references to one's own name.

Elvis Year: The peak year of something's or someone's popularity.  "Barney
the Dinosaur's Elvis year was 1993."

404: Someone who's clueless.  "Don't  bother asking him; he's 404."  From
the WWW error message "404 Not Found," meaning the requested document
couldn't be located.

Idea Hamsters: People who always seem to have their idea generators running.

Keyboard Plaque: The disgusting build-up of dirt and crud found on computer
keyboards.

Mouse Potato: The online, wired generation's answer to the couch potato.

Ohnosecond: That minuscule fraction of time in which you realise that you've
just made a big mistake.

Perot: To quit unexpectedly, as in "My cellular phone just perot'ed."

Prairie Dogging: When someone yells or drops something loudly in a cube
farm, and people's heads pop up over the walls to see what's going on.

Sitcoms: What yuppies turn into when they have children and one of them
stops working to stay home with the kids.  Stands for Single Income, Two
Children, Oppressive Mortgage.

Squirt the Bird: To transmit a signal to a satellite.

Starter Marriage: A short-lived first marriage that ends in a divorce with
no kids, no property and no regrets.

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