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Mittwoch, 11. Februar 2004
XML 1.1
rotula, 13:30h
Das W3C hat vor wenigen Tagen die Version 1.1 von XML verabschiedet. Für die Praxis wird sich nicht viel ändern, aber sinnvoll sind die Erweiterungen, bei denen es sich hauptsächlich um Anpassungen an die Veränderungen des Unicode-Standards handelt, allemal. Zu den Gründen für die neue Version und die Änderungen vgl. den Abschnitt "1.3 Rationale and list of changes for XML 1.1" der Spezifikation.
The Middle Ages of reason
rotula, 01:10h
Ein erfrischender Artikel von Terry Jones (ehemals Monty Pythons) im Observer über seine neue achtteilige Dokumentation Medieval Lives auf BBC2:
The main reason I wanted to make Medieval Lives was to get my own back on the Renaissance. It's not that the Renaissance has ever done me any harm personally, you understand. It's just that I'm sick of the way people's eyes light up when they start talking about the Renaissance. I'm sick of the way art critics tend to say: 'Aaaah! The Renaissance!' with that deeply self-satisfied air of someone who is at last getting down to the Real Thing. And I'm sick to death of that ridiculous assumption that that before the Renaissance human beings had no sense of individuality.
[via Renaissance Weblog]
The main reason I wanted to make Medieval Lives was to get my own back on the Renaissance. It's not that the Renaissance has ever done me any harm personally, you understand. It's just that I'm sick of the way people's eyes light up when they start talking about the Renaissance. I'm sick of the way art critics tend to say: 'Aaaah! The Renaissance!' with that deeply self-satisfied air of someone who is at last getting down to the Real Thing. And I'm sick to death of that ridiculous assumption that that before the Renaissance human beings had no sense of individuality.
[via Renaissance Weblog]
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