So the other day, drafting an update presentation about a particular project, I used a made-up html tag in the title.
I’d called the document “[name of project] - what’s going on?” so I naturally added a </marvingaye> tag to the end. Well, wouldn’t you?
But then I sent it out, without removing the tag from the title slide. Cue odd looks from colleagues, some of whom possibly didn’t get the markup reference, others who didn’t get the musical reference, and probably others who thought that brand of silliness didn’t belong on a work document.
*Shrug*
But there are some HTML tags that should exist, dammit. They’d make written business communication much more interesting and relevant, I think. Here are a few:
<blockquote>
<voice of experience>
<wibble>
<unnecessary caveat>
<sarcasm>
</the lesson>
<better described via whiteboard>
…there must be more.
Sounds like you should have placed the end tag within
(commonly used in forums)
This reminded me of ZeFranks anti-stress punctuation use, something like: use ). to mean “you bastard” or !! to mean “I hate you” so you can invisibly be rude to your boss.
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*Sense of humour
Dammit it won’t show the tags I made up …the meish.org comment permissions block it?
Take 2, using square brackets.
Sounds like you should have placed the end tag within
[visible only to people with SOH*]
[visible from 9am tomorrow avoiding 5pm meeting today]
[rant] as actually used in forums these days
[voice of work mentor enjoying your newb screwup]
[low caffeine warning font]
[-I’d rather be geotagging my pics on Flickr- apology text]
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*Sense of humour
Hi Meg,
Not sure what was worse: The lack of understanding of musical understanding, computer illeteracy or lack of sense of humour!
Sounds like you should join us for the LONDON GEEK DINNERS? have a look at
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I find that the ones that truly should exist are :
<sarcasm> - Because there are lots of people who still don’t seem to get that one (I know you put it too, it’s just an agreement)
<exasperated>
<shouty>
<twunt>for anything that could alternatively be suffixed with ‘you utter, utter [insert swearword here]</twunt>
and
<sounded_better_in_my_head>
Hmm, they’re more attributes of entities than entities themselves - from an XML point of view, that is.
Sorry, missing the point entirely, I know..
don’t forget
[/asskissing]
I always liked the Algol 68 way with keywords, where the end-scope delimiter was the begin-scope delimiter written backwards. So you might have
sarcasm
…….
msacras
or
surreal
…….
laerrus
[foon] [/foon]
[foonity] [/foonity]
[written while tipsy] [/written while tipshie]