In XML.com: Should Python and XML Coexist?, Uche Ogbuji liberally quotes from and analyzes two of my XML-v.-Python rants, and actually gets it completely right. Since at least one of those rants has been cited as meaning I think XML is the spawn of Satan, I’m glad Uche read closely enough to get the context and nuance, without projecting things into it that I didn’t say. Kudos!
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It’s completely useless, but I’d like to mention that I know the guy who has the CA license plate “XML”.
He was a big marketer for it a while ago.