George Washington on Standards

As you read this document you are — though you may not appreciate it — making use of thousands of conventions and practices that have been created over the last several decades. Some are informal, but most are formal, in that they have been written down, and are available in the form of documents called [...]

A shallow dive into OOXML

I’ve been following the “OOXML affair” casually for the past few months, but a number of recent articles and blog posts prompted me to pay closer attention.
I once spent some time working as part of a strategy group. From time to time we were called on to take a “deep drive,”, by which was meant [...]

Posting source code in WordPress

I just noticed a short post from WordPress on How do I post source code?.
Let’s take it for a spin:
C:

main()
println(“hello world”);
}

Java:
public class Hello {
public static void main(String [] args) {
System.out.println(“hello world”);
}
}
XML:

<table>
<tr>
<td>label1</td><td>label2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>one</td><td>two</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>1</td><td>2</td>
</tr>
</table>

HTML:

<p>This is the first line
<ul>Here follows a list
<li>one
<li>two
<li>three
</ul>

A useful feature indeed. Thanks to the [...]

Katonah Museum of Art Exhibition, Children Should Be Seen: The Image of the Child in American Picture-Book Art

My wife and I recently saw an exhibit, Children Should Be Seen: The Image of the Child in American Picture-Book Art, at the nearby Katonah Museum of Art in Katonah, about forty-five miles north of New York City.
According to the museum:

Children Should Be Seen: The Image of the Child in American Picture-Book Art [...]