I've been following along with the standards-wannabe known as OOXML. Microsoft's want this proprietary standard so much, you can feel the flames of hell leaping higher. Ok, so my visual metaphors are getting out of hand. I recently did lighting for a sketch for BMDS's production of GUMS, which in itself is a series of comedic sketches. Anyway, the sketch of which I'm speaking is where the Devil, played by Steve Watts, delivers a monologue about recent arrivals in Hell. For example, the atheists are called a bunch of nitwits, the Christians are scoffed at due to the Jews being right. Very few groups were left out. And I must say, my 'fires of hell' lighting worked out quite well. Continue reading "The ODF - OOXML Three Ring Circus" »