Petition against OOXML

[VirginSnow at vfemail.net]

> Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2007 20:17:18 -0400
> From: "Ben Scott" <dragonhawk at gmail.com>

> On 7/8/07, VirginSnow at vfemail.net <VirginSnow at vfemail.net> wrote:
> >> ISO should do better.
> >
> > ... I believe it would be a better use of Linux activists' time and
> > resources to be petitioning the FCC ...
> > ... Why isn't there a cent key on the IMB keyboard??
> 
>   And the award for "Best Threadjacking" goes to... Dave Montenegro!
> 
>   ;-)

Actually, that used to be my name, but is no longer.  I'm now
nameless.  About a month ago, I renounced my given name in favor of my
true identity.  I am nobody.  I am everything.  I am emptiness.

Though I'm aware how easy it often is to nudge a thread totally
off-topic on this list, it wasn't my intent to hijack this one.  I
was, as mentioned in my OP, just adding my POV on advocacy.  But
watching the thread go from OOXML to Baudot code... two codes
literally worlds apart... I'll accept that prize. :)

> [1] Apologies to Dave Barry.[2]
> [2] http://sonic.net/~roelofs/humor/cybermuffin.html
> [3] Third?  Shouldn't it be fourth?[4]
> [4] Shift.  Control.  Alt.
> [5] i.e., non-ASCII [7]
> [6] "I am not a number!  I am a free man!"
> [7] i.e., Unicode, HTML character entities, etc.
> [8] "Super" being the traditional fourth modifier.[9]
> [9] http://world.std.com/~jdostale/kbd/SpaceCadet.html

What's French for "I'm dizzy, now"?  (no, I'm not seriously asking for
five translations! /me imagines this thread's future... OOXML ->
Baudot -> French -> Lojban ;)