Aaron Adams’s Blowhard Blog

Many of us have been exposed to XML in some form or another. If you’re like me, you know just enough about it to sound like you know what you’re talking about, but you’d like a little deeper knowledge behind what XML is and what it’s used for. Todd Ludington and I attempt to hash out just such an understanding of XML in this podcast. Caution: Technical stuff will be discussed! But if you’re a reasonably intelligent person, it won’t be over your head.

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According to this article at ArsTechnica, a survey says (Richard Dawson) that teenagers consider e-mail to be a communication method for “old people”. Considering I’m at least twice the age of some teenagers, I wonder if I’m one of the old fogeys who loves my e-mail. No, not really. I’m not a big e-mail fan - it’s too crowded with crap. Personally, I find e-mail is primarily used by people who either want to cover their ass, or who prefer to deal with others as indirectly as possible. Sometimes it serves as a sort of answering service. Perhaps a podcast about active and passive communication is in my future.

Considering the hip childrens’ desire for more instant communication versus e-mail, it’s too bad there isn’t a kind of “phonic” device, maybe connected via a wire similar to the computer’s “Intarweb” wire, that would allow people (not just teenagers!) to communicate instantly with their own voice, instead of having to type weird abbreviations or (God forbid) entire words (wrdz d00d!!1!).

I suppose that kind of technology will appear in the future. I can hardly wait.

What the hell? Right now, I can’t imagine what the Amish would do to anyone to inspire a person to take gruesome revenge against them. There are some fucked up people in this world, and luckily I’ve only been directly exposed to some mild cases so far.

Why is it that some people prefer the thumb-numbing monotony of text messaging entire conversations over the course of an hour that could have been voice conversations lasting less than a minute? And why do they get pissy when you point this out to them?