Can we take it to the bridge?
There’s been a lot of reaction to the introduction of Da Funkidator the other day, but I think my favorite is this snippet from a wonderful fantasia by Tim Bray, one of the co-authors of the XML specification.
Mr Safe: Really. Of course, if we need to do some extension work to fit this out for financial applications, that can be done, right?
Tim: Oh yes, two of the popular versions of RSS are set up to allow that (oh, I forgot to tell you about the old "0.9*" versions that a lot of people still use, they don’t do extension). Mind you, anyone who uses the extensions risks getting called "funky," but that’s OK, they have way-cool pictures of James Brown and I’m sure your PR people won’t mind the Bank being called "funky" by the weblogging rabble.
Can we hit it and quit? Can we hit it and quit? Can we hit it and quit?
Posted at 10:59 PM