The view from the podium
At the end of April 99, I spent a week in Granada courtesy of the GCA, where I attended the XML Europe 99 conference. The price of this privilege was that I had to pay attention during all the sessions, and then give a closing address at the end of the conference, after a very sybaritic lunch (see below).
I duly attended, and took assiduous notes, (and then lost them all which is why I don't have a visit report to post). I gave my closing plenary from a series of bullet points on my laptop, which lead several people to assume that I had actually prepared a serious talk, and, more seriously, to ask me for copies of the slides afterwards.
I have therefore attempted to confect a more or less plausible version of what I actually said, written out in my best joined-up writing: and here it is. Just for fun, I wrote it in XML, using the newly minted XML version of the TEI Lite DTD, so you should be able to read it with almost anything....