thank you for giving me a new 'something' to contrast some of our internal transport cruft. i can now, at least, think positively: 'well, at least it's not XML

thank you for giving me a new 'something' to contrast some of our internal transport cruft. i can now, at least, think positively: 'well, at least it's not XML encapsulated in base64-encoded protobufs shipped over XML.'