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At 2006-11-01 13:15 +0000, Joe Fawcett wrote: >All > >We have in the UK a quiz program named >"University Challenge" whereby student teams >compete over a number of rounds for a token prize. > >The questions are normally fairly technical, >such as chemical valencies, or art and >literature, such as identifying classical music. > >This week's episode had a question on XML, can't >remember verbatim but something like: >What XML formatted files are used on web sites >to provide machine readable content summaries >and are often visuaally marked with an orange box? > >The answer, of course, was RSS. > >It was great to hear a question related to a >topic that dominates my professional life, the >first time I've seen something like that on popular television. > >Felt I had to share this so sorry if you think it's off-topic. > >Regards > >Joe During the week of September 19, XML and Web 2.0 came up on two days of a week-long story in a favourite comic strip called "FoxTrot" syndicated in our city's newspaper ... I had a similar reaction of being pleased of its mainstream exposure. Strip 1: Panel 1: Sister: "Mom says you're designing a web page for school" Brother: "Yup" Panel 2: Brother: "and not just any web page, but the ultimate web page" Panel 3: Brother: "I'm using every tool in the box. HTML... XHTML... CSS... XML... SOAP... AJAX... FLASH... PERL... JAVASCRIPT... you name it. Panel 4: Sister: "What's the page going to look like?" Brother: "I'll figure that out when I'm done." Unfortunately the paper with the second strip got thrown out before I could save it, but I think it was the last strip of the series and went along the lines of: Strip 2: Brother: "There, I'm done the school news web page and I used Web 2.0" Sister: "But the screen is blank!" Brother: "Well, duh, you have to type the news in before you can read it!" Sister: (some humourous remark about the acceptance of having to do this) I regret not cutting that one out before it was tossed. I thought it was very telling. The artist spins very geeky stuff to a mainstream audience. I've just looked through various comic archives and the access to old strips does not go that far back. . . . . . . . . . . . . Ken -- UBL/XSLT/XSL-FO training: Allerød/Vårø Denmark 2006-11-13,17,20/24 UBL International 2006 2006-11-13/17 http://www.ublconference.com World-wide corporate, govt. & user group UBL, XSL, & XML training. G. Ken Holman mailto:gkholman@C... Crane Softwrights Ltd. http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/x/ Box 266, Kars, Ontario CANADA K0A-2E0 +1(613)489-0999 (F:-0995) Male Cancer Awareness Aug'05 http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/x/bc Legal business disclaimers: http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/legal
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