That’s the term lainens uses when she is trying to talk to me and I keep getting distracted by some action or event happening near me. Being an “interrupt driven” kinda guy has some problems ;) anywho, the point of the title for this entry is that lately there have been a lot of coding distractions for me: * worked with grant on getting some tellbot modules ported to supybot * watched grant work like a mad-man on his wiki module * more research into date and time input parsing * the usual bug fixing and feature adding at work * digging deeper into the world of twisted * getting more ideas for projects than I can ever implement That last one is an ever- present issue and something I have just learned to deal with :) One of the things I was reading in the blog-sphere is the talk of using Atom[1] as a data packet and creating small tools to read/write produce/consume the data packets. As “Ted":http://www.sauria.com/blog points out in his post on the matter[2] it is not a new idea. One thing both of us seemed to concluded is that just the presence of a storage/search engine for Atom nuggets is not enough - you need to have good tools to feed the beast and tools and/or front- ends to tame it. It seems that many of the things I either read about or thought about dealt with this concept of creating pipes of data and the filters to use them: XMPP pubsub using Atom[3]; my work on modules for tellbot; conversations with Ted and other “OSAF":http://osafoundation.org crew and so on. Pardon me while I throw a context exception … Go USA womans soccer! I caught the last half of the Gold medal match between the US and Brazil today and man was I glad I did. Excellant play on both sides (30-odd fouls!) lead to a 1-1 tie at the end of regular play which caused it to go into extra time where in the 23rd minute the US scored. I say again: Woooo! :) 1. “http://www.dynamicobjects.com/d2r/archives/002885.html":http://www.dynamic objects.com/d2r/archives/002885.html 2. “http://www.sauria.com/blog/2004/08/25

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