sskelley: Running on Fedora Core 10 now

sskelley: Finally got Elizabeth on facebook!

sskelley: These last weeks, more and more seemingly chance encounters seemed charged with uplilfting, spiritual significance.

pa href=http://www.parentsconnect.com/preschooler/chat_it_up_thread.jhtml?tID=36119 is Santa real/a/p pThe link above is to participate in an experiment to measure how many incoming links it takes to move this post up the charts in Google. You can read more about the experiment at:/p pa href=http://www.blogonawire.net/blogonawire/archives/197http://www.blogonawire.net/blogonawire/archives/197/a/p

sskelley: Digging further into asp.net dynamic data: http://ping.fm/t36Hf

sskelley: Published this week's Hawthorne Videoactive Report: www.videoactivereport.com

sskelley: Watched Undiscovered then listened to a bunch of Ashlee Simpson music

pI really enjoyed the music and story in this commercial: great message in a short time with almost no dialog. Great drama from a href=http://www.us.hsbc.comHSBC bank/a. Did you catch the touch of humor with the bear?/p p[thumbnail:id=UaRYR7wQPsk]/p p[video:id=UaRYR7wQPsk]/p

pLast night I watched some videos of the Epicrsquo;s newly released ldquo;Gears of War 2.rdquo; Itrsquo;s of special interest to me because I was VP of programming at a a href=http://4dgames.virtustate.comgame company/a developing a game on Epicrsquo;s engine during the Unreal Tournament/Warfare time frame around 2000-2002. Working with this game engine was one of the most challenging and fun things Irsquo;ve ever done./p pa href=http://www.hawthorneblog.com/content/games-cathedrals-digital-age target=_blankread more/a/p

pI started poking around with Drupal's RDF module last night and ended up staying up VERYnbsp;late. RDF is one of the languages supporting the a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Websemantic web/a and the semantic web may be, or already is depending on your view, the next great thing on the Internet. The idea of the semantic web is to leverage all the content on the web as structured, meaningful data. This would enable automated systems to search and process this data with reference to its meaning rather than just a mass of unstructured text./p pa href=http://www.hawthorneblog.com/content/semantic-web-alive-and-well target=_blankread more/a/p

sskelley: Halloween party pictures on facebook: http://ping.fm/mE4fF

sskelley: Taking the afternoon of work for a well-deserved break!

sskelley: Trick or treat was tonight in Fairfield. Savannah at least still wants me to go with her.

sskelley: Having fun with Red5 and JW FLV Player

sskelley: Writing next week's Hawthorne Videoactive Report: http://ping.fm/LHMo1

sskelley: Nisargadatta quotes and bible verses on my blog: www.virtustate.com

p style=line-height: 125%span style=font-size: 10pt; color: #292929; line-height: 125%; font-family: quot;Helveticaquot;,quot;sans-serifquot;In my first job outside academia, I was encouraged to break my habit of cobbling things together from whatever I could scrounge for free and begin spending money on the best hardware and software I could find. At the time and place, this was exactly what was needed for me and the company. Since then, Irsquo;ve continued to integrate the benefits of being frugal and using the best. In almost all cases, the best is the most frugal course./span/p pa href=http://www.hawthorneblog.com/content/new-toys target=_blankread more/a/p

sskelley: Watched War Inc - Since first seeing Better Off Dead I LOVE John Cusack

sskelley: Inspired today, practiced my Taekwondo form AND made some music

sskelley: Finally got around to enabling our WSS for incoming email