{"id":686,"date":"2008-03-28T08:43:50","date_gmt":"2008-03-28T08:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/pebkac-acronym\/"},"modified":"2008-03-28T08:50:57","modified_gmt":"2008-03-28T08:50:57","slug":"pebkac-acronym","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/03\/pebkac-acronym\/","title":{"rendered":"PEBKAC &#8211; Acronym"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An increasing trend in my daily life of checking various forums, blogs etc is that I have to do a search for various acronyms that people use in their posts that mean nothing to me. One such acronym that I&#8217;ve just had to look up is PEBKAC, I had no idea what it meant so a quick search online and I had the answer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair&#8217;&#8230; A slightly humurous way of explaining human errors when using a computer. 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