Well I though about trying programming languages as a means for communication...
Anyway, if anyone is interested, please participate in the thread, using whatever language you are comfortable with, as long as its a pretty common language that could be widely understood. (so please avoid cobol, LISP, assebly...)
So anyway ill start here (with php)... but you can pick the variables and reuse them in another language.
<?php
var $topic;
?>