Here is the geek coming out of me. Several of you might say that it's been pretty apparent for a long time, so why have I just noticed it.

To those I say "all your base belong to us."

Web 2.0. It’s out there. I'm part of it, and so is most of the world. Marketing people wouldn't be doing their jobs if there wasn't a clever name to describe it - (like Gen-Xers, or my favorite, "baby boomers.")

The following is my opinion, so that will normally mean that I have no factual information to back this but experience and a mind that "thinks outside of the box" - another one of my favorite terms created and then overused. If you don't think outside of the box, you are unemployed in my segment (marketing - not the newspaper).

Web 2.0 was basically created in 2001, or that's when I first came into contact with it. When Microsoft switched everything in the WebDev to xml, that was beginning. Now we have these RSS feeds and nifty ways to handle code and cut and paste this and that.

Unfortunately, I see this new craze of code handling and more people having access to modify it as a bad thing. They say there are only two absolutes in life - death and taxes. I think it’s a false statement. I think there is a third that went with software design and web applications: don't let anything be touched by human hands. If you do, then there will be a mistake. The more automated, the safer. Build a nice template, but don't let them touch the source.

The computers of old had the problem of people having to enter in boot disks and run little programs to get the system to even think about running WordPerfect. It was a chore to get anything done, and it took too long to do anything on the computer. Windows was easy because you could click on an icon and it would do all the work of loading the program and then running it. Now we don't even think like that. Now it's fuel injected computers with RAMs the size of hard drives and hard drives the size of data centers and software programs as robust as something that is robust.

WHAT IS THE POINT OF THIS POST???

I just laugh at it all. As far as technology goes for right now and years back, I have been right on. I'm not Steve Jobs or some crazed technology buff who can predict the future, but I can see how new discoveries will apply to the future technologies and one of those was .xml.

BEWARE WEB 2.0

To be honest (my wife's favorite phrase that I use), I made most of that up on the fly just to humor myself.

Good Night, Dear Diary