I almost daily curse my apostrophe key because it likes to bollix up my SQL, so I'm not really surprised I've been ignoring when I'm supposed to use it correctly.
Wade.
Dave Winer thinks Microsoft is in the right about its XML.
- (static)
- (40)
- Oct. 13, 2005, 09:56:07 PM EDT
Dave Winer is pretty much a numbskull anyway.
- (CRConrad)
- Oct. 13, 2005, 03:50:00 AM EDT
He's surprised?
- (Andrew Grygus)
- Oct. 13, 2005, 05:21:47 AM EDT
You get the Bob Award for the day.
- (Yendor)
- (24)
- Oct. 13, 2005, 08:44:34 AM EDT
We need a weecode for this.
-NT
- (pwhysall)
- (4)
- Oct. 13, 2005, 10:47:43 AM EDT
No, we REALLY don't
- (hnick)
- (3)
- Oct. 13, 2005, 11:36:02 AM EDT
Hear, Hear!
-NT
- (imric)
- Oct. 13, 2005, 12:00:59 PM EDT
How about us polite pedants?
-NT
- (drewk)
- (1)
- Oct. 13, 2005, 12:08:56 PM EDT
Well, if you're polite enough, you won't need it... :)
-NT
- (hnick)
- Oct. 13, 2005, 12:40:08 PM EDT
It's a special case
- (ChrisR)
- (17)
- Oct. 13, 2005, 05:22:33 PM EDT
Except that the possessive of "it" is "its" not "it's"
- (drewk)
- (5)
- Oct. 13, 2005, 05:36:22 PM EDT
Not quite the right reason
- (jake123)
- (4)
- Oct. 13, 2005, 05:40:31 PM EDT
Its? It's stupid!
- (ben_tilly)
- (3)
- Oct. 13, 2005, 05:55:27 PM EDT
Not that hard to tell
- (jake123)
- (1)
- Oct. 13, 2005, 05:57:18 PM EDT
It's ambiguous
- (ben_tilly)
- Oct. 13, 2005, 05:59:55 PM EDT
Ahh, YAN argument for Victor Borge's Audible Punctuation :-)
-NT
- (Ashton)
- Oct. 13, 2005, 06:26:49 PM EDT
Fascinating, how so many native speakers of English...
- (CRConrad)
- (9)
- Oct. 15, 2005, 05:08:38 PM EDT
Hey.. it's like this-yere
- (Ashton)
- Oct. 15, 2005, 10:41:35 PM EDT
its is a polit way to write "grunt"
-NT
- (boxley)
- Oct. 15, 2005, 10:42:45 PM EDT
I's will do it at each and every possible opportunity now..
- (hnick)
- (6)
- Oct. 16, 2005, 09:03:14 AM EDT
(I think we found Hugh's button.)
- (Another Scott)
- (1)
- Oct. 16, 2005, 10:19:30 AM EDT
MWHAAHAAAA!!
-NT
- (hnick)
- Oct. 16, 2005, 11:47:33 AM EDT
"Pisces", perhaps? HTH!
- (CRConrad)
- (1)
- Oct. 16, 2005, 05:03:26 PM EDT
...as in "off"?
- (pwhysall)
- Oct. 16, 2005, 05:08:42 PM EDT
Halleluiah!
- (imqwerky)
- Oct. 16, 2005, 05:39:23 PM EDT
Yabut.. the scary part is -
- (Ashton)
- Oct. 17, 2005, 06:07:56 AM EDT
Ooops! CRC gets all medieval on yer ass!
-NT
- (jb4)
- Oct. 17, 2005, 05:35:06 PM EDT
D'oh. Fixed.
- (static)
- Oct. 13, 2005, 09:57:34 PM EDT
Microsoft XML Sample
- (tuberculosis)
- (12)
- Oct. 21, 2005, 04:23:02 PM EDT
That's what the OpenDocument guys are complaining about.
-NT
- (static)
- Oct. 23, 2005, 10:43:49 PM EDT
Re: Microsoft XML Sample
- (altmann)
- (10)
- Oct. 24, 2005, 03:07:44 AM EDT
That "link" doesn't work
- (drewk)
- (9)
- Oct. 24, 2005, 09:58:20 AM EDT
Well, duuuh.
- (folkert)
- (6)
- Oct. 24, 2005, 10:24:30 AM EDT
Point was ...
- (drewk)
- (5)
- Oct. 24, 2005, 10:58:03 AM EDT
Sorry, that's proprietary.
-NT
- (Andrew Grygus)
- (1)
- Oct. 24, 2005, 11:05:37 AM EDT
ICLRPD: Sorry, that's proprietary. (new thread)
- (Steve Lowe)
- Oct. 24, 2005, 03:59:33 PM EDT
That is on a knead to know baseless.
- (folkert)
- (2)
- Oct. 24, 2005, 12:32:14 PM EDT
knead this
- (altmann)
- (1)
- Oct. 24, 2005, 03:15:36 PM EDT
I would love to download those references...
- (folkert)
- Oct. 25, 2005, 09:33:11 AM EDT
It's a URI. It doesn't have to.
-NT
- (altmann)
- (1)
- Oct. 24, 2005, 03:19:43 PM EDT
But, how are
- (folkert)
- Oct. 25, 2005, 10:04:03 AM EDT