With a span span here, and a span span there, here a span, there a span, everywhere a ...

I said it before but I will say it again, because you are all still doing it:

STOP FUCKING using SPAN and DIV tags for EVERYTHING!

Its amazing to me how whenever something new and "better" comes along, that we all just completely stop doing things the "old" way, even to the point of shunning the old ways and ostracizing anyone who still does.

Case in point: the much maligned table tag in HTML. Once the darling of HTML layout and design, its use as such has been replaced by CSS positioning. This is because HTML is supposed to be for representing the structure of your data, and not the layout and display of that data.

So now, like Salt and Eggs before it, the poor table is considered evil.

Have we all forgotten that a table is more than just a display technique, but also a very important form of data structure? Its OK to use a table tag to represent - hey! - a TABLE of data.

Oh, and this goes for you people who want to make everything into an Object! This means languages that are purely object oriented, and trying to force relational databases into object oriented paradigms. Stop it! Sometimes, arrays are good. Sometimes, set theory is appropriate. Procedural programing just hits the spot sometimes (and I'm sorry to break it to you, but even Objects contain procedural code!).

I'm not saying I don't love and use object oriented programming. Its just that I have not forgotten how we got here, and how all the old methodologies are still useful tools. I like my arrays and integers and strings and procedural code as well as my objects.

Now, I am going to eat some eggs with salt on them, cooked in oil, without worrying about my heart exploding... oh yeah, and coffee too.