[via the Google Blog] Yay! Google announces a new SOAP-based api for programmers to write applications that access Google.

[via Dave] This joke is for Jodi... Love ya hon!

While I think it was a great idea, I can't help but think that it would have been very easy to make this a lot more flexible.

I was looking through my referer logs today, and noticed a new entry: turns out it's a new blog by an old buddy - Chris Ruzin is another designo-geek I knew back in my days in Germany. Looks like he's back in the states and looking for work: if you need such a one as him, check out his resume.

[via Anita's LOL] Adam Felber, comedian and regular panelist on Wait Wait Don't Tell Me on NPR, has a blog! A sample:

Last night's Academy Awards ceremony, one of the longest in recent memory, showed us a Hollywood that was forced to take a good long look at itself and its priorities in the wake of September 11th...

This article in the NYTimes includes a comment on the origin of the name of Google's mystically powerful PageRank&trademark:

Boy my brain is tired. I've spent most of today trying to comprehend the Charlie Foxtrot that is my company's main database. The business rules involved are insanely complex, and are giving my a Grade-A headache. Oy.

Eric Olsen (via Dave) on blogs:

Anyone who has done a modicum of software design is familiar with use cases - (usually) short blurbs that describe all the ways the software can be used.

Brad got his photos from the AZ(+NY) blogger bbq ("blog-b-q?") up online. My vote for best pic: Damien wows us with New York mouse pads ("3D!").

Well, it's started! Mark and his wife Kim got here first. TiBook count: 2.

Esther Dyson is quoted on Evhead:

"A conference is always an attempt to orchestrate. Now, it is also something to annotate." Lately I've had this whole annotation thing stuck in the back of my head. Inspired perhaps by the W3C's Annotea, or perhaps by the semantic-web brainwashing I've been receiving over on[#swhack](http://monkinetic.blog/tag/swhack)](http://blogspace.com/swhack/chatlogs/), I've been hacking on a python app (cgi for now) that will one day let you annotate this site with related links. If, of course, I ever finish it.

I've been using Launchbar from Objective Development for a few weeks now. All I can say is... DAAamn. That's a FINE pice of software. Launchbar indexes all your applications and documents (all configurable) and then gives you access to each of them in as little as 3 keystrokes.

Damien and Brad finally showed up. After a great dinner of teryaki chicken and (slightly tough to be honest) steaks, we're sitting down for a bit o' Taboo...

I totally ripped the title off from some other blog, or movie. Anyway, my life has been too dominated by work, and a few other things, to post lately. But here I am.

As I post this we are flipping the switch on the app I've been working on for 4 months. Here goes nothing...!

It is 3 AM, and I'm on the upstairs couch at work, trying to relax and eventually get some sleep. My app has (finally) been online for 30 minutes, and I feel like a nervous father watching his kid ride a bike for the first time. In traffic. At the Indy 500. (!)

WARNING: The Rice and Bean burrito from Rito's in suburban Phoenix (it's the kind of dive that sells one thing, and does it better than anyone else!) maintains a microwave-induced internal temperature that is substantially higher than mere physics can explain. Consider yourself warned.

Dave started a weblog directory. He doesn't have the biggest one though.

I've been up to my ears recently trying to get an app out the door for my employer. This has adversely affected my blogging frequency. I'll try and do better. -)