Arrgh!

My beloved CD Collection... butchered into an HTML3.0 Table. Would now be a good time to complain about the state of the Web? Logical organization was a great idea when this whole thing was a proof-of-concept demonstration of a system through which scientists could exchange intelligently, though blandly and uniformly, formatted electronic papers. Now, when it has become clear that the image-is-everything crowd has taken over, under the hot pink and electric orange and fluorescent green, not to mention metallic, banner of Mr. Hunter S. Negroponte and his Wahrd digerah-rah-rahti, and even humble part-time programmers who enjoy doing a bit of good graphic design on the side feel compelled to polish or perish, it is time to acknowledge that, yes, everyone is (note the use of <i> instead of <em>), in fact, doing their layouts graphically instead of logically, and that it's time to toss out this whole concept of logical formatting and let people set up pages that exist merely to look good. Let them do it in their favorite page layout or graphics editing program and forget about all these obnoxious little "tags".

One of the lines in this perl script reads:

print "<tr valign=bottom><td colspan=3><h3>$1</h3><fnord></td></tr><uL>\n";

for god's sake! And the #$%@ table still doesn't look right.

This is absurd! Viva la revolución! I regret that I have but one working lifetime to give for paper!

Sorry. Guess I got a little out of hand back there. I'm not really like that. I swear. Pay me no mind. Especially if I've recently talked to you about a web-related job. I was merely venting spleen.

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