Bah! · It's nice to be a native speaker of a living language; if you keep your eyes open you can watch usages get born, flourish, and die; or sometimes find a permanent foothold in the population ...
RSS to NetNewsWire to World Press Review · This is a technology success story. Due to my status as an XML maven, I got sucked into a long-running debate over an XML news syndication format called RSS (I could provide a link, but you'd do better typing "RSS" into a search engine). The subject was how to use namespaces, but the result was that I got interested enough to go looking for an "RSS Aggregator Program" for my own use ...