Validation Bull Shit

Well, I tried to submit my blog to some service called Technorati and they rejected it because it had too many validation errors. I went through the 240 odd "problems" and most were complaints about the way links were formatted, problems with Blogger's formatting, and issues with the way that the added content is formatted.

While I have no problem cleaning up my code, one of the issues I see with the present course of the Internet is its increasing complexity. Long gone are the days when we could just write a simple webpage. To be honest, I'm not entirely sure that if I could find a decent HTML editor for my OS X laptop that I would simply drop the blog stuff altogether and just publish pages. But then again, much of that good old HTML that was so simple and yet so effective is now "deprecated" in favor of the much more complex and difficult to learn Complex Style Sheet (CSS) and XML, XHTML, HXMTxLm, MLXTMWLXYLHMTL, and the rest.

What I really loved about the Internet in the good old days was that it was simple enough that anyone and everyone could set up a page and just about anyone could communicate with everyone. Well, it is clear that this isn't a good way for business to make money and of course how can an industry support a "professional class" without a highly complex code of rules and regulations (law, accountancy, and the like come to mind). Of course, it seems like a grand effort to take the Internet away from the people.

Then, with all the crapware floating around (virii, trojans, spyware, adware, cheapware, etc) it just becomes all that much more overwhelming. No, I don't really care if I can't see that stupid Flash intro - I am much more interested in the content. Yes, a nice design makes the viewing experience more pleasant, but I really don't care if I can't control every detail of the screen.

What a pain the Internet has become!