"it wasn't easy sir, but we bagged 'im".
"ok... ok... any time, officer... *click*."

well, i am reminded of this, from "The 5th Element", where immediately following this telephone conversation, the Police, having picked up the *wrong* guy from the "tip-off", which was supposed to finger our hero as a uranium smuggler, get whacked by the big-uglies.

an attempt to throw someone off-track, by lying to the police, but the police get the wrong guy, get killed, the wrong guy is then mistaken as the *right* guy by the big-uglies, who then attempt to impersonate the *wrong* guy in an attempt to get on the plane. ARGH!

why do i bother mentioning this? because i split staff and documenters into certification tables, ones with the reverse-syntax. i *thought* i could simplify the reverse-syntax at a single point in the code, and ended up adding reverse-switches to absolutely everything to do with certifications and metric-calculations.

i get the impression that, at some point, this is going to bite me...

p.s. does anyone remember the name of the big uglies? one of them, their leader, is called aakgh-knot.