WHAT'S THE MEANING OF "XNA"?

Interesting question ... if you are taking a long brake with a cup of coffe or a beer on your hand as well as allowing your eyesight to go out the window into deep space (I mean both "windows", your computer's OS and your office/home's one).

A couple of days ago I watched "The Da Vinci Code" on DVD and some "late nights" ago -given that I was sleepless- a rerun of "2001: Space Odyssey" on Cable, so as you can guess I soon remembered the meaning behind "HAL" -the computer of the ship- that some guys used to argue. What is worse and sad, I suddenly started to look for patterns in almost everything: "23, 23, ...".

With the recent announcements that we can create games for Zune, and being mainly influenced by the first-mentioned film above, I started to think over the meaning of the word "XNA", if any.

I know it has been officially claimed that there is no real meaning behind the 3 letters, but WHAT IF those letters resulted from other 3 letters ... (?)

Following this crazy idea I played around a few minutes "shifting" the letters a couple of places back and forward and hereunder you will find what I got:

V W X Y Z
L M N O P
Y Z A B C

I don't have a clue what "VLY" and "YOB" could stand for, but let's take a look at the remaining two arrangements:

1. WMZ : "Windows Mobile Zune", and my favorite
2. ZPC : "Zune PC Console".

Now, which platforms will XNA be officially supporting on this mid-to-yearend 2008? ... wait ... processing ... wait ... got it! ... Yeap ... Windows (PC), XBox360 (Console) and Zune (errr ... Zune?) ... XNA sounds way better than WMZ and or ZPC.

Coincidence? Maybe ... :)

Watch this space!

[I know I have lost my mind but you still have a way out ... just avoid the combo of films: "The Da Vinci Code" and "2001". Don't worry, better posts are coming soon. I promise!]