Its hard to believe I wrote this over a year ago now.

Keep XML naked.

XDocs anyone? Is this different from the XML enabled Word we have heard about? Looks like its is something else but I'm not sure.

The next big thing on the Web? Easy, e-Service URLs become entry points to reliable, once and only once delivery of messages or
asynchronous business processs. Good article by Jon Udell on Infoworld about this.

A poetry challenge.. Create a diamante poem for an
upcoming book authored by Mike Champion, Lauren Wood, Ann Navarro and I.

"You don't do good software design by committee. You do it best by having a dictator. " So says, Design guru Donald Norman.

Even if there was not an opportunity to play golf, I would still be tempted to attend Digital ID World. Identity issues pop up everywhere these days and Web Services create a whole other set of identity issues that are only now coming into focus.