Geek

I finally got around looking up the term geek in Wikipedia. Fascinating stuff, and I'm relieved to confirm I'm not a geek according to the Wikipedia "definition" to the best of my knowledge. Would you like to be called a geek after reading the above link? ... (some time later) ... The basic rule is: don't shoot the messenger.

Although totally unfair, but slightly related, I fed some of the HTML pages of those who feel comfortabe with the idea of being a (computer) geek through an HTML parser that adheres to the standard. The results are not fit for publication, but your geekness factor can be increased by simply realising that the HTML LI element is not complete without either an OL or UL. The fact that all common HTML browsers deal with this gracefully illustrates that standards are there to be broken and that dealing with violating the standards is core business. This may work at the syntactic level, such as HTML and spelling mistakes, it won't work at the semantic level.