(it was hard enough to type this in and escape it correctly; I can't imagine what it looks like in an RSS feed :)It doesn't stop there. The open and close delimiters are clunky, though I guess you can't blame XML for that as HTML has it too. The syntactic waste can double the file size easily. And parsing XML files requires reading the whole file before you can start to actually make sense of it. Audio and Video started this way, and guess what, it didn't work very well when transmitted over networks, so people worked really hard to coming up with streaming audio and video just to get around this shortcoming. Where's the streaming XML format? I rest my case.XML is verbose, inefficient, suffers from whole-file syndrome, is difficult to parse correctly, has nesting/escaping problems to the nightmare degree ... and yet everybody is always raving about how great it is. I think it's overrated at best.' />

Ideas & Insights

Writing

These writings started as email messages from me, Glenn Reid, as a kind of personal newsletter to a list that grew organically from friends & family to my business contacts. After many requests for back issues, I hacked them into blog format for this web site. Start with the most recent post below — or hit First to start at the beginning. Enjoy!