Well, nobody did drop the bomb, sister (though not for lack of trying), and now here we are at the start of a brand-new century hearing the same darned thing: If we go to integrated forms and CGIs, our competition will use Java applets! And if we roll out our own applets, they're likely to try ActiveX controls and XML-enabled browsers!

The courageous Webmaster turns a deaf ear to these sob stories. He knows that escalation is the way of the world, a biological necessity since our first ancestor crawled out of the slime and ate somebody else's ancestor. Technology advances relentlessly. A good solider has to keep in step take it in the rear. War is hell.