01.27.03
It’s all geek to me
Told you the culture couldn’t last. Time to speak geek for a minute…
I’ve been meaning to fix the RSS feed for this site so that it outputs the full text of the article. I’ve also been getting increasingly fractious about the way my RSS feed completely ignored all formatting.
I was blaming it on Movable Type, but, as usual, the culprit was my own empty head. Both problems were instantly solved when I amended the RSS template to read the article Body tag rather than the Extract.
Dear me. At least the RSS output now looks rather elegant; in fact, looks about the same as the main page.
As the man would have said, deep joy.
Steve said,
January 27, 2003 at 4:47 pm
Posted this at the linked area - should’ve really put it here…
Not sure if this is on the same track (bit of an amateur language nut here myself) - but did you know the word Bizarre is derived from the Basque? I don’t know any other words in english that we’ve nicked from Basque, but I just like that as it’s - well, bizarre…
Pajamas and Shampoo come from the Indian and Anorak is from an Inuit tongue. So there.
Jon said,
January 28, 2003 at 9:14 am
So ‘bizarre’ comes, through the French, from the Basque ‘bizar’ meaning beard? Marvellous!
Webster’s explanation is that beard = a bravo. I can only assume the missing link is that the French thought that preening Spanish tough guys were comical. Or maybe they’d just never seen a beard before.
Either way, it’s a nice story, Steve.