1.	Today is the fourth anniversary of XML-RPC. On this day in 1998, after a brief collaboration with Microsoft, we opened a new protocol to Frontier developers that allowed applications running on Windows to communicate with apps running on Macintosh, and vice versa. What followed exceeded my wildest expectations. Today, four years later, XML-RPC is the defacto language for interapplication communication on the Internet, with support in all popular development environments and operating systems.
2.	XML-RPC evolved to become SOAP, which is more famous -- if you pay attention to the press and analysts and the execs at BigCo's. But if you listen to developers, they're choosing XML-RPC in droves, because of its simplicity, broad support, and lack of confusion about what it is and where it ends.
3.	XML-RPC remains simple because I've been a hardass about simplicity. At the same time I continued with the SOAP process, and am one of its parents, because I recognize that it's important to connect with systems created by big companies, even if I despise their greed and aspirations to lock developers and users into their systems, which I do, and they do.