JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

I’d seen this Geek Quiz around on a few web blogs and decided to try to take it myself…I came up at 41% Geek or a Geek Liasion. Not sure why I scored so high – was it that I associated pizza with breakfast?!. The site gives a diagnosis including a whole picture and comments to paste into your own blog…I’ve edited it a bit and pasted the paragraph below….

You are a geek liaison, which means you go both ways. You can hang out with normal people or you can hang out with geeks which means you often have geeks as friends and/or have a job where you have to mediate between geeks and normal people. This is an important role and one of which you should be proud. In fact, you can make a good deal of money as a translator.

Hmmm, Geek Translator huh? I’ve tried a couple different careers but never that one…maybe the next time I enter the workforce….

Speaking of translation though, if you’ve ever wondered what my wonderful husband does, or if, like me, you’ve tried to read his weblog and come up coughing with questions….I’ve found a couple simple definitions ….

Via Fragments from Floyd , I found XML and the Semantic Web from 10,000 Feet by Eric Hanson. It’s a bit old, from May 2001, but I think that it explains a bit about XML and ways the Web works now and could work better in the future.

And last weekend, I got a good definition of Apache. We were at a party getting to know another couple. Ted was talking about what he does, and our acquaintance was trying to explain what Apache is to his wife:
“It’s the best web server in the world. All my test machines run it.”
I told Ted: “Now I have a good definition of Apache.: the best web server in the world!”
“Didn’t you know that already?” he replied.
Well, yeah, but it’s something else to hear someone else say it….