The Reason We Technologists Have Jobs…

…is other technologists.  My good friend Scott Feier sent me a link to this comic at Smashing Magazine today, which ostensibly explains the future of XHTML.

imageDo you ever want to find the bright bulbs on these standards committees and give them what-for?  It’s no wonder my Mom will never really understand computers and people like us (if you’re reading this, I’ll bet you’re one of us) will continue to make money.  Who else would be able to take stuff like this and explain it in English words so that people realize that it just doesn’t matter?  (Except to us.)

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