At one time I was just scraping by selling my own classified advertising software for desktop publishers. One user was XTRA, Canada’s largest newspaper for the Gay community.Naturally, their database of customers and ads was sensitive. But I needed to take it home from time to time to debug things. So I wrote a “scramble” routine that shuffled names around, changed all the phone numbers to 555-xxxx, changed the credit card numbers randomly, and so forth. When I needed to take the database off-site, I would log out, duplicate the database, log back in, and run the scramble routine on the dup.The menu item for this routine was called “Fruit Salad,” and it only appeared when I logged in. One day I was at their office debugging something, and their manager saw the menu item.“What’s that?” He asked. I was embarrassed, it suddenly occurred to me that my little joke was inappropriate and insensitive. “Uh, nothing…” I stalled, and while I tried to make up a good explanation, he grabbed the mouse and selected it.On the live database.