One week from tonight, on Wednesday, January 21, 2004, starting at 6:30 P.M. I will be speaking to the XML Developers Network of the Capital District in Albany, New York. The topic is "XQuery: Exquisite or Excruciating?". I'll be exploring exploring XQuery 1.0, talking about both the its syntax and semantics of this powerful new language. There'll also be a personal demo of XQuisitor, a new open source GUI tool for querying XML based Michael Kay's Saxon 7.0. The meeting takes place at the HANYS offices in Renesselaer. I'm told the building will be locked; but if you come to the front door (the side facing I-90), someone will let you in.