Journeys in XML
My Wife: [looks over my shoulder at the laptop screen]
What's XHTML? I know HTML but I haven't heard of this one.
Me: Well, it's sort of designed to be a replacement for HTML. It's a bit tidier and stuff like that.
MW: What does the 'X' stand for?
Me: Oh, that stands for XML - Extensible Markup Language. It's a form of HTML that complies with XML standards.
MW: Oh, okay. [pause] Umm, doesn't 'Extensible' start with an 'E'?
Me: Yep.
MW: So where does the 'X' come from?
Me: It comes from XML - Extensible Markup Language.
MW: You said that. But why is there an 'X' if 'Extensible' starts with an 'E'?
Me: [long pause] You see, the 'X', right, it stands for 'Extensible'.
MW: But, but, Extensible starts with an 'E'!
Me: Yes.
MW: [frustrated pause]
Me: Ooh, and see this knob? It goes all the way up to 11!
4 comments:
HAHAHA excellent, I lol'ed
My wife delights and despairs in equal measures about being married to a geek.
She loves that I can do things like fix the computers or create things for her but at the same time she hates the fact I can get lost in it all.
I don't think she'll ever understand tech acronyms though :)
My wife likes the fact that I can fix the computers if something goes amiss. But I get too wrapped up in it all and try to break loose from the draw of Tech and the Internet. Only to get sucked back in.
Curtis, it can be a real trap.
It's all too easy to get sucked in by the detail and forget the bigger picture. Unless it's your job to know everything there is to know, it's nice to have a circuit-breaker like our respective wives who know exactly when to "plug the plug" drag us back to the real world for a while.
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