the web is no good unless it can be a sound foundation for the semantic web and web services too.

Gah. And my house's foundation is no good unless it can be a foundation for a skyscraper and a gas station too. Comments like these from people I think should know better occasionally drive me to rant.

In more exciting news, I'll be ranting next week at the Extreme Markup Languages conference in Montreal. It's always been one of my favorite shows, and this year they gave me a Daily Polemic. The original version of What can you do with half a parser? is pretty good (I think), but for the polemic it's getting a cast of Playmobil figures and some toxic black goo.