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Weird Words, Wonderful Wives, and Wizzie Wigs
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| 1/14/2005 |
I'm not sure how to take this entry
in Janene's blog. It's either the sweetest, kindest insult or the most
backhanded compliment I've ever been on the receiving end of. I feel
like the target of one of those "roasts" they do on Comedy Central. I
contemplated trying to return the favor, but I fear I'm no match for
her devastating wit. One favor I have no hesitation in returning is to
wholeheartedly recommend reading her blog
to anyone interested in the subjects she discusses (other new parents,
for example). Oh, and by the way, Luke isn't the only one who goes gaga
every time he sees you, poophead.
(Just for the record, I have never written an entry about people who eat dwarf bread. Nobody eats dwarf bread. They smash skulls with it, occasionally, but never eat it.)
Her entry did leave me wondering, though. When did WYSIWYG become
obscure technical jargon? I obviously wouldn't have expected my
father-in-law to know it, but Janene's hardly a computer novice.
WYSIWYG is as much part of my vocabulary as "HTML" or "Server" (or
"implementation" or "configure" as she so kindly points out) and it
never would have occurred to me that I was speaking incomprehensible
gibberish. To anyone I've confused with this or other overly technical
terminology, I hereby apologize. For readers coming from Janene's blog
and wondering what the heck a "wizzie wig" is, WYSIWYG stands for What
You See Is What You Get, and means that you can edit something (such as
a website) by looking at what it really looks like, instead of HTML
code. She was specifically referring to the Telerik rad Editor that's included in NetReach's cmScribe software.
On an unrelated note, thanks to Mark Wielaard for setting me up a private debugging version of Planet Classpath to figure out why it was crashing on my feed. Turns out the planetplanet software
can't handle an <!> tag in the HTML portion of the feed. Not sure
whether that's technically valid HTML or not (I think it is) but all
the other systems could handle it...
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