Where Shall I Begin?

It's not that there's nothing about which to rant. No, on the contrary, the problem is that there's too much damned stuff to serve as rant material. Identifying a good place to jump in might prove to be laborious, but I think I can do it. After all, I spent the first few years of my blogging career complaining venomously about XML and how its blatant commercialization was a scourge to the technology industry.

Of course I was wrong about that whole XML thing. After all, nobody can claim to have not adopted all of those wonderful 'WS-*' technologies, right? Oh, I was also wrong in that all of the best social networking sites now use that awesome FOAF format. Don't they? Perhaps I missed the mark quite a bit since there are no XML documents out there these days whose elements aren't part of a namespace. To top it all off, I was totally wrong when I criticized that technologically superior semantic web idea.

Shame on me. I should be publicly denounced for having doubted the great minds who brought you such wonderful and life altering technologies as the rapidly finalized XQuery specification, XML Schemas, Microsoft Bob, and the dreaded blink tag. To question the collective genius of committees or faceless corporations with their own competitive agendas seems to have been incredibly silly in retrospect.

I promise, it will never happen again.

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