January 24, 2009
“Listen, strange women lying in ponds and handing out swords is no basis for a system of government.”
— srikanth @ 8:43 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1232829781 ) 
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Play What’s the story involving the guy in (1), a place in (2)’s legend, and a very irritating file format?
Cracked by almost everyone.
Answer:
John Warnock, The Camelot project, and PDF.
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January 24th, 2009 at 10:01 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1232834506 )
John Warnock who wrote a paper outlining a project called Camelot and later founded Adobe, which worked Camelot into PDF.
Thank you for the Monty Python reference, it’s a great way to start a Sunday morning.
January 24th, 2009 at 10:29 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1232836167 )
The guy in 1 is John Warnock, best known as the co-founder of Adobe Systems Inc. He worked on camelot, a place in king arthur (2), which evolved into pdf (a irritating file format).
January 25th, 2009 at 4:07 am, GMT +0000 ( 1232856432 )
John Warnock and the Camelot project, which gave rise to the .pdf format?
Why is it irritating? It’s far better and more useful than .doc (or anything else by MS), for instance.
January 25th, 2009 at 6:59 am, GMT +0000 ( 1232866768 )
John Warnock, Camelot, PDF
January 25th, 2009 at 8:11 am, GMT +0000 ( 1232871082 )
monty python and the quest for the holy grail
(srikanth was talking about this very thing in the evening :D )
January 25th, 2009 at 10:14 am, GMT +0000 ( 1232878451 )
John Warnock, whose Camelot system evolved into PDF.
January 25th, 2009 at 8:20 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1232914806 )
John Warnock and the irritating file format being ps, developed through “Camelot Project.