Grammar check article on Slashdot

I submitted an article to Slashdot today and it was accepted!  Within a few hours, it collected over 200 comments.

My submission was based on an above-the-fold, front-page article in today's Seattle Post-Intelligencer on a marketing professor's attempt to get Microsoft to improve the grammar checker found in Microsoft Word.

Personally, I'm a huge fan of the grammar checker.  I use Microsoft Word to edit my e-mail messages and have the grammar checker flagging grammar and style.  The only options I have turned off are "Use of first person", "Passive Sentences", and "Contractions".  I wish I could use the editor for these blogging posts (I know I can via various tools, but it's slows down the process and I blog less often).

Todd Bishop of the Seattle PI also blogged about it as well as including a humorous graphic.