stefan.kapus@zetnet.co.uk (Stefan Kapusniak) says:


  Hold on a moment whilst I turn off the Rupert Sheldrake...

  ...okay done.

  Geeky post now follows, expect that it involves Visual Basic so it can't
  _possibly_ be geeky, it has to be lame instead.

  PARADOX, OR NOT!


In alt.religion.kibology, kibo@world.std.com (James "Kibo" Parry) wrote:
>You think that's something, I keep having to say "metadata".

  Ha! I've got written 'classes'[1] to handle my metadata.  Peering out
  at me from this huge list that VB [<--- EVIL! EVIL! EVIL!] contends
  is my current project I have:

  ctcMetaItem
  ctConstMetaKeys
  ctcDataObject - which holds a collection of metaItems holding metaData

  And a cast of literally half-dozens of ctc.*Serialiser classes which
  are plugged into instances of ctcDataObject and are then used to
  serialise my metadata.

  YOU DIDN'T NEED TO KNOW THAT
  YOU DIDN'T WANT TO KNOW THAT
  BUT NOW YOU DO

 [Five hundred men in top hat and tails dance across the stage accompanied
  by five hundred women in bathing suits and feathers doing geometry under
  water]

  LARGE FLASHING CAPTION:  TULIP DIGGERS OF 1636


>As in "HFS Plus under Rhapsody uses MIME Apple-Double to preserve the
>resource fork, plus it squirrels away the HFS metadata."

  The frightening thing is I could actually make a fairly confident
  guess as to what this actually entails.


>Try saying "metadata" to someone you've never seen laughing.
>
>I keep my metadata in a dodecahedron with a fern and nougat from Schenectady.
>
>Matt McIrvin will now explain Steve Allen's joke to Jerry Lewis.
>
>                                -- K.
>                                Sitck a resource fork in me, I'm done.

  WARNING! WARNING!

  This Kibo's Morphogenic field is passed its sell buy date.  EAT AT
  YOUR OWN RISK,


-- Kapusniak, Stefan m

 [1] No not really, you can't inherit, and inheritence isn't replaced with
     something equally clever unlike in Self, or Agora.