I spent the weekend working on integrating our Library catalog with Amazon. Should have been working on more important things, but this is cool.

I've enclosed the details in a cut, because there are some big pictures.

( mi )

Ugh, just spent several hours setting up MRTG on a customers system because our new support policy says we're going to help dedicated customers install 3rd party applications. But enough bitching, this post really isn't about that.

This post is about playing with cool technologies. Namely, FOAF, OPML, and XSLT. If you want to learn more, read below.

( ack!ronyms )

So, work was good today. It looks like I'm moving off phones into development work, as there are now several projects for me to work on. Plus, we got a new coffee maker. It holds water for 3 pots of coffee. Very exciting.

Plus, the database for almost the full Open Directory Project has been parsed and placed online. You can see a demo of it here. Once I write up a few clients to use that information to organize bookmarks it will be much more useful.

If anyone's interested, click ( here ) for a description of how to use it in your own programs. The code might be mine, but the without the data, and all the editors at ODP who contributed to it, it'd be useless. So visit dmoz next time you think of Yahoo! It's a pretty cool directory.

Besides that, nothing else is really new. Except I had some really tasty yam fries at this vegetarian restaurant in Ann Arbor. Crack Fries is more like it. mmm.. yam fries.