I'm completely lost by all that you said, which really just proves my idiocy.

Er.., no. :)

I blog about whatever I feel passionate about. At times, I feel passionate about the most horrificly involved technicalities you can imagine. I'ma computer programmer, so that happens :)

This blog entry is a fine example. I probably haven't gotten the hang of warning my audience of the nature of my post yet, or categorizing, or something, but folks like Jon Abernathy or maybe.. uh.. Tim Bray would know what I'm talking about here and could probably show me where I'd plugged something in backwards. But one of them has better things to do than my homework for me and the other one drafted the XML specification and probably doesn't even read my blog.