{"id":87,"date":"2004-03-29T15:18:54","date_gmt":"2004-03-29T19:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/?p=87"},"modified":"2005-04-15T17:33:55","modified_gmt":"2005-04-15T22:33:55","slug":"irony-isnt-just-a-river-in-egypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/?p=87","title":{"rendered":"Irony isn&#8217;t just a river in Egypt."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, acronyms are immune to standards and, indeed, organization.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;ISO (International Organization for Standardization) is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iso.org\/iso\/en\/ISOOnline.frontpage\">world&#8217;s largest developer of standards<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tsk, tsk. Clearly, they are only interested in <i>double<\/i> standards, as any web geek cringes looking at their table-laden, FrontPage code. Do what ISO says, ye quality controllers, not what they do.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a similar sort of logic that has Amazon giving people entirely incongruous impressions of <a href=\"\/images\/blog\/page_i_made.gif\">who I am<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, acronyms are immune to standards and, indeed, organization. &#8220;ISO (International Organization for Standardization) is the world&#8217;s largest developer of standards.&#8221; Tsk, tsk. Clearly, they are only interested in double standards, as any web geek cringes looking at their table-laden, FrontPage code. Do what ISO says, ye quality controllers, not what they do. 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