Thursday, October 01, 2009


Not Dead, Just Smelling Funny


Google Wave in a Fluid SSBI’m still around, just really busy and not writing much. I’m in the middle of a large project with a large, unnamed company and it’s keeping me very busy. About the only time I’m at my official office desk is to plug in every few days to do a laptop backup.

  • PubSubHubbub looks interesting. One reason I’m writing a blog post is so that I have a reason to ping. ☺
  • If you happen to be Google Wave, you can add me as a contact: marmoset |at| googlewave.com
  • I rewrote my old messy del.icio.us tagquery script in Python, in the process speeding it by a factor of 4. The new version lives here, and will still point and laugh if run on anything other than a Mac with delimport installed.

:: Dave Walker 17:37 (EST/EDT) [+] ::

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