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Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
“Forward, the Light Brigade!
“Charge for the guns!” he said:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.

“Forward, the Light Brigade!”
Was there a man dismay’d?
Not tho’ the soldier knew
Someone had blunder’d:
Their’s not to make reply,
Their’s not to reason why,
Their’s but to do and die:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.

Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon in front of them
Volley’d and thunder’d;
Storm’d at with shot and shell,
Boldly they rode and well,
Into the jaws of Death,
Into the mouth of Hell
Rode the six hundred.

Flash’d all their sabres bare,
Flash’d as they turn’d in air,
Sabring the gunners there,
Charging an army, while
All the world wonder’d:
Plunged in the battery-smoke
Right thro’ the line they broke;
Cossack and Russian
Reel’d from the sabre stroke
Shatter’d and sunder’d.
Then they rode back, but not
Not the six hundred.

Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon behind them

Volley’d and thunder’d;
Storm’d at with shot and shell,
While horse and hero fell,
They that had fought so well
Came thro’ the jaws of Death
Back from the mouth of Hell,
All that was left of them,
Left of six hundred.

When can their glory fade?
O the wild charge they made!
All the world wondered.
Honor the charge they made,
Honor the Light Brigade,
Noble six hundred.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

Questa vignetta mi ricorda qualcuno…..

“There is essentially no computer in the world, desk-top, hand-held, or back-room, that doesn’t process XML sometimes”
Tim Bray

Anche il consorzio W3C festeggia il decennale del linguaggio XML con una pagina speciale accessibile al seguente link: http://www.w3.org/2008/xml10/

Comunicato stampa

Oggi su slashdot c’è una nota che fa riferimento a un post di un blog che parla del momento in cui fu formalizzato lo standard XML nel 1998.

E’ interessante e ci sono divertenti annedoti sulle persone che ci avevano lavorato.

Il post è alla seguente url: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/02/10/XML-People.

Buona lettura

Oggi è un giorno particolare e vorrei dedicare a una persona, che voglio bene da almeno 5 mesi, e purtroppo so che non c’è futuro.
K. ti amo.