[plug] Portable Address Book

James Devenish devenish at guild.uwa.edu.au
Mon Nov 15 15:02:42 WST 2004


In message <20041115063019.GG10330 at patrick.wattle.id.au>
on Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 02:30:19PM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> James Devenish wrote:
> > Is it intended that [iCalendar] and vCard should be a pigeon pair?
> WTF is a pigeon pair?

It has been noted that when a mummy pigeon and a daddy pigeon have baby
pigeons, they often produce two eggs: one male and one female. Hence,
boy/girl twins in human families are sometimes referred to as "pigeon
pairs". I noticed that vCard and iCalendar seem to share syntax and
design and I was wondering if it was intentional, to encourage their
side-by-side adoption.





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