XML Rant
At work, I've been advocating the conversion of some our text datafiles into something with more self-description (and an XML format). I think that a couple of my co-workers (who oppose the idea, on what I judge to be self-conflicting, and maybe even emotional reasons) would enjoy the following article, even if they might not be familiar with the particular tech industry angst from which it grew.
http://www.zefhemel.com/archives/2004/09/12/the-church-of-xml