I joined a conference on XML publishing this afternoon. I highly admire the speakers for their many attempts to achieve a reliable way to use XML in publishing, though I've taken, and will take, another approach. There's a lot of difference between their problem area and mine. Mind you, the conference was very instructive.

I have to talk at the other conference on publishing tomorrow. But the weather forecast says that it will be dreadful snow. I'm anxious about the number of people coming.