Wow. I had plans to post a lot of things on here, but for now, general busyness has overloaded all these into bullet points in an OPML file somewhere. Speaking of which, OmniOutliner is the most critical productivity application ever made, by virtue of it's complete open-endedness and masterful key binding intuition. It's a work of art.

So what's changed round here? My dissertation on social software and the World Live Web is done & dusted (more in subsequent posts), my love affair with Ruby has blossomed (more - so much more - in later posts), i'm now working as an application developer in PHP5 and my ears are filled with podcasts (Open Source & PHP related), courtesy of itunes 5, making my commute to work almost bearable.

Elsewhere the gang of four, kernighan, knuth and hofstadter are illuminating the corners of my days.