Phew, my curser was going blue from holding its breath so long with all that post hanging on it.

Looking back, the worst thing was the throwaway nature of it, the casual nature of the critical remark. The way Sir Tim Berners-Lee, internet enventor, just happened to let it slip. And if you mised his confesion, here it is: there was no technological need for that wretched double foward slash at the beginning of ever internet address.
Well, thanks a lot. Thousands of miles of paper later, millions of misprints, squillions of stutterings over the words, we find out that soething we thoght was there for a boffiny reason is actually utterly useless.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee is being talked about as one whom David Cameron might ennoble. After thsi, Mr Cameron should think again. The House of Lords? After the infliction of the //? The Court of Human Rights more like.