After long and stressful projects, I usually allow myself a period of "lateral drift" where I spend time learning nifty things I have no time for. After a sustained period of MUST DO, MUST DO, MUST DO ... I relax with the optional, slowly sneaking up on my responsibilities again. It's my way of combatting burnout, and discovering new directions. My last period of lateral drift was the fall of 2003, wherein I found the Semantic Web and started this blog. This current drifting time lasted two months, wherein I revisited at length the state of Web standards, and spent...