Never thought I’d be doing this, but what the heck? Anyway, I’ve been dabbling with Ruby on Rails for about a year now and have deployed several quick and needed applications on my company’s intranet. I find that I am somewhat addicted to the RoR style and philosophy. The one thing that I do find difficult is keeping up with releases and all of the new plugins, gems, and syntax changes that seem to be regurgitating almost daily.
I am also going to my first Ruby on Rails conference in Orlando on Feb. 8 & 9. This conference is labelled Acts_as_conference and looks to be quite interesting. I even plan to attend the charity session offered and found myself compelled to donate to the prescribed charities.
My nephew, Joel Watts, is a Python/Django developer and is embarking on some interesting concepts. I’ll let the reader determine the relativity of http://quiltid.com. Joel has created a quilt analogy using favicons and allowing users of quiltid to claim association, or even ownership, of related or non-related websites. I envision this concept as allowing a user to capture and present their presence on the web. Joel has leveraged OpenID into his grand scheme. I think there are some more exciting things to come from this. Keep Dreaming, Joel 
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That’s all for now.
Tim
