Living in Mr. Friedman's Flat World

We're finishing up the testing phases for a project at work right now. The other day I would looking at a list of bugs and the names and locations of who those bugs are assigned to. Here is a list of the locations:

1. Argentina
2. Australia
3. Belgium
   
4. Brazil
5. Canada
6. China
   
7. Denmark
   
8. France
9. Germany
   
10. India
    
11. Italy
    
12. Japan
    
13. Malaysia
14. Mexico
    
15. Poland
    
16. Spain
17. United Kingdom
    
18. United States

Wow! I hadn't counted them before now. One of my roles on the team was to take a number of translation defects and make sure they are fixed and accounted for. That has been a big challenge for me. Finally, I was able to figure out how to switch my operating system to do Japanese input. Then, it took me until this morning to get it back to just plain old English.

Of course, Mr. Friedman is a reference to Thomas Friedman, author of The World is Flat.