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Wed, Nov 28, 2007

A Mommy Blog Worth Following #

My friends, Greg and Elizabeth, had their first child last month, a baby girl. It was a good thing, too, as Greg has been insufferable about Boston sports recently, and I was seriously considering downgrading him on my friends list. In addition to saving our friendship, their new daughter was responsible for another very good thing: Elizabeth started blogging. Now the rest of the world can see what her friends already knew: She's an amazing writer. I don't typically count mommy blogs among my regular reading material, but I'm constantly amused and touched by Elizabeth's stories. Plus, she occasionally pokes fun at Greg, a quality I've always heartily approved of and hope to see much more of. Take a look; it's appropriately named 4 AM Feeding. (MSA)

/personal | Posted at 3:19am

barx: A Ruby XRI Resolver #

Last month, VictorGrey and KermitSnelson announced barx, the first full implementation of the XRI 2.0 draft specification (working draft 11, for those of you keeping track). I finally downloaded and started playing with it tonight; it's very nice. Most OpenID implementations are using a proxy hack to support i-names, but as real XRI implementations start to come out, we'll start seeing many more interesting applications. (MS5)

I've started to port barx over to Perl and will hopefully have it completed by IIW next week. Yes, I'm coding again. I've been sitting on a slew of year-old ideas that need to get implemented, and I'm tired of being a preacher instead of a do-er (at least when it comes to code). It's against my instincts, and I don't have enough of an audience to leverage the LazyWeb. (MS6)

Besides, I was starting to miss it. Over the last few years, I've built a reputation as someone who knows a bit about collaboration, not just about tools, and that's been really gratifying. It's also helped me feel okay about reminding people that I still know a bit about tools as well. Plus, a lot of things have been stoking the fire recently. I was managing the HyperScope project last year and the GrantsFire project this year, both of which are conceptually and technically interesting. I never stopped reading code, and a lot of my friends are developers. What really kicked things into gear for me, though, was stepping in as an emergency developer for GrantsFire and watching LinusTorvalds's git talk. (MS7)

I started playing with a bunch of ideas at once, but I'm focusing on GrantsFire and the DigitalIdentity stuff now. Stay tuned, and if you want to hack with me over the next few weeks, either face-to-face or remotely, ping me. (MS8)

/collaboration/idcommons | Posted at 2:51am