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For small values of the web

Tim Bray: Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe you can abstract the Web away. Hmph.

Pssst: don’t tell anyone, but this is only true for small values of ‘the web’.

Meanwhile, the ETech 2006 agenda is starting to take shape.  I’m presenting on Neurotransmitters.  Mark Pilgrim is presenting on Greasemonkey.  My boss’s boss will be presenting too.  As, apparently, will be Tim Bray.

Fasten your seatbelts boys and girls.  We are in for some radical simplification.  A very me-centric one.

“Pssst: don’t tell anyone, but this is only true for small values of ‘the web’.”  Exactly!

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