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What is this load of technobilge about? How would you explain this to a Masai tribesman or a Peruvian llama shepherd?
I’m very pleased to announce the technology preview of Technorati microformats search for contacts, events and reviews, and Pingerati, a microformats ping distributor to support and grow the microformats ecosystem. Microformats are the key building block, the lingua franca, that make structured information open and sharable on the Web.
What surely must have started out with good intentions at the first letter of the opening paragraph of this Technorati announcement turned me cold because I was thrown a load of technobilge that I do not understand. I read no further. For all the good it did to get my attention, the article might as well have been written in Sanskrit!
Far from impressing me with his expertise and knowledge, which he undeniably must have, Tantek Çelik lost me as a possible punter because he wrote in Technobilge. When oh when will people learn that to captivate the audience and to get them to want to read further, the best way to do it is to use simple language that will hook the reader to read on.
Technobilge does not attract me to want to read an article. Maybe I am the only one in Blogoland who feels this way, but unfortunately for Tanek, I blog about it and hopefully others who read this post may come to realise that they too do not enjoy being forcefed meaningless bilge and acronyms that soothe the authors’ ego but do little to get the undivided attention or curiosity of the audience the author needs to pull in.
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Techno-what?!
Technobilge. Water collects in a ship/yacht’s bilges and with other crap must be pumped out. Dirty crappy work. Diesel accumalates in the bilges too. The fumes make you feel seriously sick. You want to hurl.
Below are the correct definitions of bilge.
My difinition is ‘utter crapspeak’
Definitions of bilge on the Web:
cause to leak; “the collision bilged the vessel”
water accumulated in the bilge of a ship
take in water at the bilge; “the tanker bilged”
where the sides of the vessel curve in to form the bottom
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
The Bilge is a term for the compartment at the bottom of a vessel (ocean liner, yacht, sailboat, cruiser.. etc) where water collects so that it may be pumped out of the vessel at a later time. Bilge pumps went from buckets, to hand pumps, and now electric bilge pumps are available for even small vessels. …
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilge
The area in the lower part of the hull where water collects, also the part of the hull where the bottom turns into the side, the “turn of the bilge”.
http://www.camelot-sailing.com/glossary.html
The interior of the hull below the floor boards.
http://www.boatersdream.com/libarticles.cfm
the lowest part of a boat, designed to collect water that enters the boat
http://www.oceans18home.citymax.com/page/page/1305311.htm
The lowest part of a vessel’s hull where any water in the hull collects.
http://www.matthew.co.uk/home/help.html
When a hull is cut in a cross section, the bilge is the point of maximum curvature between the bottom and the side of the canoe below the waterline.
http://www.paddling.net/guidelines/showArticle.html
The bottommost part of a ship’s interior. In seaman’s slang, worthless talk.
http://www.hometravelagency.com/dictionary/ltrb.html
This is the rounded plating at the lower corners between the vertical shell plating and the outer bottom plating.
http://www.dynagen.co.za/eugene/hulls/terms.html
The odour/flavour stimulus associated anaerobic bacterial growth and which is illustrated by the intense rank odour of bilge water. (cale)
http://www.inspection.gc.ca/english/anima/fispoi/manman/samnem/define.shtml
curved part of the hull beneath the waterline, inside or out
http://www.sailboatstuff.com/glos_a_c.html
The lowest part of the ship’s hull; location of most crew housing
http://www.cruisejobfinder.com/members/otherinfo/glossary.php
The lowest part of the hull’s interior on either side of the keel. The turn of the bilge is the transition of the hull shape from essentially horizontal to vertical in section, described as hard if the transition is relatively abrupt, or slack if the transition is gradual.
srmwww.gov.bc.ca/arch/pubs/ship/glossary.htm
The area of the hull below the waterline. The lower internal part of a boat’s hull, adjacent to the keels. The place where water collects
http://www.sailorschoice.com/Terms/sctermsletterb.htm
Curved portion between the bottom and the side shell plating, drainage space within the ship
http://www.insurexchange.com/glossary/pandi.htm
the breadth of a ship’s bottom, or that part of her floor that approaches to horizontal; the lowest interior portion of a vessel
http://www.eco-tec-inc.com/glossary.html
Curved part of ship’s hull where the bottom meets the side.
http://www.titanic-titanic.com/titanic%20glossary.shtml
The lower inside hull of a ship, up to the point where the sides become vertical.
http://www.geocities.com/titanicandco/glossary.html
the low point on the inside of a kayak’s hull.
http://www.kayakingjournal.com/kayak-terminology.html
water that collects in the bottom of a ship
http://www.evgschool.org/Columbus%20vocabulary.htm
The lowermost internal spaces of a vessel.
http://www.berg.com.sg/mgB.htm
The bilge is the lowest point of a ship’s inner hull. Waste water and oil tends to collect in the bilge, and if flushed while at sea, this oil can form a slick on the ocean’s surface and in turn cause incidental oiling of passing birds.
http://www.odonel.k12.nf.ca/science/endangered/define.html
Holy macaroni. You lost me, boet. Not that it takes much. Lol.
If I said TechnoKAK will that simplify matters?
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