One of the reasons I blog, despite all the fame and fortune it brings me ;-) , is the fact that I can record, for my own benefit, solutions I have found to problems. One day I will need to find a particular factoid again and Google will bring me back...
One of the best project managers I have had, to this point, was very fond of using " foo " as a verbal place-holder for every un-named variable/method/class/project etc in a conversation. He also had a couple of sweet kids and a penchant for writing....