I only wish I had known more about it 10 years ago.
XML is ten years old today. It feels like yesterday, or a lifetime. I wrote this that year (1998). It’s really long.
The title was originally Good Luck and Internet Plumbing but the filename was “XML-People” and I decided I liked that better. I never got around to publishing it, so why not now?
Remember, it’s ten years old; some of the people and companies are in different places now.
I found this photo mixed in with a bunch of photos on Yahoo about dinosaurs and other fossils. I guess the reason it was there was because of the caption.
In this file photo Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad waves as he leaves the presidential palace in La Paz September 27, 2007. Ahmadinejad is visiting Bolivia to tighten diplomatic ties and sign energy and industrial aid agreements. Ahmadinejad said on Saturday he believed the market price of fossil energy, which includes oil, was still below its ‘real price’, Iranian media reported. (David Mercado/Reuters)
I think it more appropriate that he showed up because he and his Muslim extremists are fossils in the living world of today.
President Bush will probably never get credit for pushing science to the point of finding alternatives to embryonic-destructive stem-cell research, but he certainly has done that with his determination not to have it funded with federal tax dollars.
