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Judging a book on six words
Once again it’s time for our literary review, where we give you the latest six-word that you won’t have time to read on holiday because you’re too busy checking for messages from work.
First up we bravely dive into modernism with a work in which Paul Burkimsher challenges his audience not just to read, but to implement. His radical effort entitled [style]*
(position:relative)[/style][table][input] not only provides new insight into Internet Explorer, but according to Slashdot (from where he copied it), these six words crash IE as well.
Some might ask: ‘is this actually an original work of art by Paul, or merely a cut and paste from a geek web site?’ We say, as the Dadaists would have, that it’s all about the context.
Our second author this week is Chris Wallace, who supplies a list of short stories based on his work in the NHS. With great economy of effort he at once tells a story of technology disappointment, perhaps raising the spectre of an IT project gone wrong with a clear allegorical strand evoking an organisation swallowing up every resource allocated, and much more.
Again, in ‘No sir, 16 megabytes is insufficient’, context is everything.
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