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{ Monthly Archives } July 2007

Home from Oxford

As usual, the trip to the XML Sum­mer School in Oxford was excel­lent. I learned a lot and met some inter­est­ing people and had fun too, even though I’ve decided that two trips to Europe, with a one-year-old, in 26 days, is a little too much travel in a short period of time. The XML […]

2007 07 31 Conference Comments (2)

Off to Oxford

I’m leav­ing for Oxford this after­noon; haven’t had much time for blog­ging in the last few days, what with recov­er­ing from the Ber­lin trip and get­ting ready for this one. Not to men­tion cop­ing with an extremely clingy tod­dler, who gets jeal­ous of Mummy’s laptop, and the phone, and any­one who dares get in between […]

2007 07 19 Family
General Comments (3)

Definition of Open Standards

Rick Jel­liffe, who’s been in the middle of lots of stand­ards efforts, writes on the sub­ject at Is our idea of “Open Stand­ards” good enough? Veri­fi­able vendor-neutrality. Worth read­ing, although he does make the assump­tion that the term “open stand­ards” means “cre­ated by some stand­ards organ­iz­a­tion”. Although that’s a tempt­ing defin­i­tion, and the one used […]

2007 07 12 Standards Comments (5)