Up here where the air is clear

Empire State Building To New York for three days of client meetings. With an afternoon free, and very pleasant weather what better way to spend time than taking a trip up the Empire State Building (the sign in the lobby said "visibility: 10 miles"). Pigeons on the 86th floor How nice to have three days of purely commercial work stretching ahead, with no OOXML or standards politics in sight. There is a certain clarity to doing technical work in an environment when the requirements are clearly on the table; and technically and conceptually the schema I’m working on here is miles ahead of OOXML/ODF — but maybe in saying that I’m influenced by the fact that I am the chief designer ;-) ODF Conformance catch-up When I get back to the UK I hope to post a blog entry on ODF conformance. I’m surprised nobody has risen to the challenge I issued in my last blog entry to predict the result. So, I rene...