{"id":1706,"date":"2003-08-01T13:35:00","date_gmt":"2003-08-01T17:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/?p=1706"},"modified":"2021-05-24T01:37:08","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T05:37:08","slug":"running-with-the-bull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2003\/08\/01\/running-with-the-bull\/","title":{"rendered":"Running With the Bull"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/images\/techbug.gif?resize=65%2C20&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"65\" height=\"20\">&nbsp; &nbsp; I saw this on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techlive.com\"><i>Tech Live<\/i><\/a>. Deloitte Consulting offers an intriguing shareware app called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dc.com\/insights\/bullfighter\/index.asp\">Bullfighter<\/a>, which analyzes corporate literature and memos. It strips meaningless jargon and translates the text into honest-to-God, understandable English. This could be a very important and useful utility and might be the dope-slap many upwardly mobile urban professionals need. The app integrates with Word and PowerPoint and can be used free for 30 days (and can be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dc.com\/insights\/bullfighter\/downloads.asp\">downloaded here<\/a>).<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; P.S.: As a test I ran President Bush&#8217;s most recent press conference through it. The program came back with no text whatsoever and crashed my system. (Apparently it&#8217;s incompatible with any president after Harry Truman.)\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; I saw this on Tech Live. Deloitte Consulting offers an intriguing shareware app called Bullfighter, which analyzes corporate literature and memos. It strips meaningless jargon and translates the text into honest-to-God, understandable English. This could be a very &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2003\/08\/01\/running-with-the-bull\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","category-tech"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1707,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706\/revisions\/1707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}