Recently I've been talking about an article Dave Winer wrote about one of his long-time favourite rants: embedded HTTP servers in devices. Once again, I'm left with the bitter feeling that there's something built into human nature that makes most of us love waste.
Not only physically where we are become an ever-increasing disposable society, throwing away perfectly good things that just need small repairs, but also digitally on the Internet where we are wasting more and more bandwidth and CPU cycles with our bloated, lazy protocols and software designs.
It's time for me to put on my Womble hat and flog the dead horse one more time.
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