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  "title": "Next serial enthusiasm?",
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  "html": "<p><em>Update:</em> Yeah - I sent out a request for comments after breaking my comments.  Ugh.  Thanks if you tried commenting, and I hope you might try again.  If not, thanks for stopping by anyway!</p>\n<p>So, I've been basically hacking on nothing after work for quite some time now.  I've had a few false starts, but have been finding it hard to get motivated to move on anything.  There are a few things I've started, though, which might be worth returning to and finishing.  If I were to do that - or start something new - which of these do <em>you</em> think might be worth my time?</p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http://decafbad.com/svn/trunk/FeedMagick2/\">FeedMagick2</a> - web command-line toolkit for munging and filtering feeds, written in PHP 5</li>\n<li><a href=\"http://decafbad.com/svn/trunk/XoxoOutliner/\">XoxoOutliner</a> - a browser-based outliner with a REST API, written in PHP 5</li>\n<li>Learn <a href=\"http://www.djangoproject.com/\">Django</a> or <a href=\"http://pylonshq.com/\">Pylons</a>, do social networky stuff and explore OpenID and OAuth?</li>\n<li>Explore <a href=\"http://codeigniter.com/\">CodeIgniter</a> or <a href=\"http://kohanaphp.com/home.html\">Kohana</a> further, do social networky stuff that can ideally be installed alongside WordPress and PHP 5?</li>\n<li>Something else?  <a href=\"http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/\">OpenSocial</a>?  Keep hacking on my Centro's Blazer browser and do something silly and Web 2.0?</li>\n<li>Level <a href=\"http://armory.worldofwarcraft.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Maelstrom&amp;n=Paytol\">my troll</a> to 70 and work on getting sweet PvP gear?</li>\n</ul>\n<div id=\"comments\" class=\"comments archived-comments\"><h3>Archived Comments</h3>\n<ul class=\"comments\">\n<li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221090988\">\n<div class=\"meta\">\n<div class=\"author\">\n<a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://www.decafbad.com\"><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=2377f34a68801b861c3e54e1301f0dce&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png\" width=\"\" height=\"\"></a>\n<a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://www.decafbad.com\">l.m.orchard</a>\n</div>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#comment-221090988\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2008-01-28T18:57:01\">2008-01-28T18:57:01</time></a></p>\n</div>\n\n\n<div class=\"content\"><p>Testing?</p></div>\n\n\n</li>\n<li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221090990\">\n<div class=\"meta\">\n<div class=\"author\">\n<a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://cleartext.wordpress.com\"><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=5e4eb150ddc6e250691bb950ccedc3b5&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png\" width=\"\" height=\"\"></a>\n<a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://cleartext.wordpress.com\">ebellis</a>\n</div>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#comment-221090990\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2008-01-28T19:13:45\">2008-01-28T19:13:45</time></a></p>\n</div>\n\n\n<div class=\"content\"><p>My vote is for Django and OpenID research. I'd be very interested in hearing your take on OpenID and OAuth. Just my two cents.</p></div>\n\n\n</li>\n<li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221090991\">\n<div class=\"meta\">\n<div class=\"author\">\n<a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://blog.wachob.com\"><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=5c8ad784d2b5d12d57cf707dded1d58c&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png\" width=\"\" height=\"\"></a>\n<a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://blog.wachob.com\">Gabe Wachob</a>\n</div>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#comment-221090991\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2008-01-28T20:03:54\">2008-01-28T20:03:54</time></a></p>\n</div>\n\n\n<div class=\"content\"><p>My vote is:\n1) Pylons/openid/oauth</p>\n<p>2) XoXoOutliner</p>\n<p>3) Level your troll... or opensocial, but I think opensocial probably doesn't give you the same instant gratification that slaying a evil 5 headed acid-drooling dragon-like creature does.</p></div>\n\n\n</li>\n<li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221090992\">\n<div class=\"meta\">\n<div class=\"author\">\n<a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://jeffdaly.wordpress.com/\"><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=f2e613837687c930227127a7b0267dd0&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png\" width=\"\" height=\"\"></a>\n<a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://jeffdaly.wordpress.com/\">Jeff Daly</a>\n</div>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#comment-221090992\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2008-01-30T17:48:37\">2008-01-30T17:48:37</time></a></p>\n</div>\n\n\n<div class=\"content\"><p>My vote is for FeedMagick2. The web could use a powerful feed manipulation tool. I read a ton of feeds, some of which could really use some tweaking, combining, and filtering, but most of the tools offered up so far don't provide enough functionality. Maybe I just need to learn XSLT.</p></div>\n\n\n</li>\n<li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221090993\">\n<div class=\"meta\">\n<div class=\"author\">\n<a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://bri.cx\"><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=9a7142abe9119efd5b1ee8c756f09156&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png\" width=\"\" height=\"\"></a>\n<a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://bri.cx\">Kevan</a>\n</div>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#comment-221090993\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2008-01-31T03:31:26\">2008-01-31T03:31:26</time></a></p>\n</div>\n\n\n<div class=\"content\"><p>You gotta get to 70. A) You NEED a flying mount. B) Half the stuff in the game is aimed at being 70.</p>\n<p>But you can start farming honor now... That Arena 1 gear buyable with battleground honor is awesome.</p></div>\n\n\n</li>\n<li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221090995\">\n<div class=\"meta\">\n<div class=\"author\">\n<a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki\"><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=1d7a7610cb0f02de44be3c4186f82ac3&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png\" width=\"\" height=\"\"></a>\n<a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki\">Bill Seitz</a>\n</div>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#comment-221090995\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2008-02-15T02:43:28\">2008-02-15T02:43:28</time></a></p>\n</div>\n\n\n<div class=\"content\"><p>I vote for learning Pylons by doing XoxoOutliner in it.</p></div>\n\n\n</li>\n</ul>\n\n\n</div>\n\n\n",
  "body": "*Update:* Yeah - I sent out a request for comments after breaking my comments.  Ugh.  Thanks if you tried commenting, and I hope you might try again.  If not, thanks for stopping by anyway!\r\n\r\nSo, I've been basically hacking on nothing after work for quite some time now.  I've had a few false starts, but have been finding it hard to get motivated to move on anything.  There are a few things I've started, though, which might be worth returning to and finishing.  If I were to do that - or start something new - which of these do *you* think might be worth my time?\r\n\r\n* [FeedMagick2](http://decafbad.com/svn/trunk/FeedMagick2/) - web command-line toolkit for munging and filtering feeds, written in PHP 5\r\n* [XoxoOutliner](http://decafbad.com/svn/trunk/XoxoOutliner/) - a browser-based outliner with a REST API, written in PHP 5\r\n* Learn [Django](http://www.djangoproject.com/) or [Pylons](http://pylonshq.com/), do social networky stuff and explore OpenID and OAuth?\r\n* Explore [CodeIgniter](http://codeigniter.com/) or [Kohana](http://kohanaphp.com/home.html) further, do social networky stuff that can ideally be installed alongside WordPress and PHP 5?\r\n* Something else?  [OpenSocial](http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/)?  Keep hacking on my Centro's Blazer browser and do something silly and Web 2.0?\r\n* Level [my troll](http://armory.worldofwarcraft.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Maelstrom&n=Paytol) to 70 and work on getting sweet PvP gear?\r\n\r\n\n<div id=\"comments\" class=\"comments archived-comments\">\n            <h3>Archived Comments</h3>\n            \n        <ul class=\"comments\">\n            \n        <li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221090988\">\n            <div class=\"meta\">\n                <div class=\"author\">\n                    <a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" \n                       href=\"http://www.decafbad.com\"><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=2377f34a68801b861c3e54e1301f0dce&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png\"/></a>\n                    <a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" \n                       href=\"http://www.decafbad.com\">l.m.orchard</a>\n                </div>\n                <a href=\"#comment-221090988\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2008-01-28T18:57:01\">2008-01-28T18:57:01</time></a>\n            </div>\n            <div class=\"content\"><p>Testing?</p></div>\n            \n        </li>\n    \n        <li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221090990\">\n            <div class=\"meta\">\n                <div class=\"author\">\n                    <a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" \n                       href=\"http://cleartext.wordpress.com\"><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=5e4eb150ddc6e250691bb950ccedc3b5&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png\"/></a>\n                    <a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" \n                       href=\"http://cleartext.wordpress.com\">ebellis</a>\n                </div>\n                <a href=\"#comment-221090990\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2008-01-28T19:13:45\">2008-01-28T19:13:45</time></a>\n            </div>\n            <div class=\"content\"><p>My vote is for Django and OpenID research. I'd be very interested in hearing your take on OpenID and OAuth. Just my two cents.</p></div>\n            \n        </li>\n    \n        <li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221090991\">\n            <div class=\"meta\">\n                <div class=\"author\">\n                    <a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" \n                       href=\"http://blog.wachob.com\"><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=5c8ad784d2b5d12d57cf707dded1d58c&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png\"/></a>\n                    <a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" \n                       href=\"http://blog.wachob.com\">Gabe Wachob</a>\n                </div>\n                <a href=\"#comment-221090991\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2008-01-28T20:03:54\">2008-01-28T20:03:54</time></a>\n            </div>\n            <div class=\"content\"><p>My vote is:\n1) Pylons/openid/oauth</p>\n\n<p>2) XoXoOutliner</p>\n\n<p>3) Level your troll... or opensocial, but I think opensocial probably doesn't give you the same instant gratification that slaying a evil 5 headed acid-drooling dragon-like creature does.</p></div>\n            \n        </li>\n    \n        <li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221090992\">\n            <div class=\"meta\">\n                <div class=\"author\">\n                    <a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" \n                       href=\"http://jeffdaly.wordpress.com/\"><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=f2e613837687c930227127a7b0267dd0&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png\"/></a>\n                    <a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" \n                       href=\"http://jeffdaly.wordpress.com/\">Jeff Daly</a>\n                </div>\n                <a href=\"#comment-221090992\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2008-01-30T17:48:37\">2008-01-30T17:48:37</time></a>\n            </div>\n            <div class=\"content\"><p>My vote is for FeedMagick2. The web could use a powerful feed manipulation tool. I read a ton of feeds, some of which could really use some tweaking, combining, and filtering, but most of the tools offered up so far don't provide enough functionality. Maybe I just need to learn XSLT.</p></div>\n            \n        </li>\n    \n        <li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221090993\">\n            <div class=\"meta\">\n                <div class=\"author\">\n                    <a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" \n                       href=\"http://bri.cx\"><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=9a7142abe9119efd5b1ee8c756f09156&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png\"/></a>\n                    <a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" \n                       href=\"http://bri.cx\">Kevan</a>\n                </div>\n                <a href=\"#comment-221090993\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2008-01-31T03:31:26\">2008-01-31T03:31:26</time></a>\n            </div>\n            <div class=\"content\"><p>You gotta get to 70. A) You NEED a flying mount. B) Half the stuff in the game is aimed at being 70.</p>\n\n<p>But you can start farming honor now... That Arena 1 gear buyable with battleground honor is awesome.</p></div>\n            \n        </li>\n    \n        <li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221090995\">\n            <div class=\"meta\">\n                <div class=\"author\">\n                    <a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" \n                       href=\"http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki\"><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=1d7a7610cb0f02de44be3c4186f82ac3&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png\"/></a>\n                    <a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" \n                       href=\"http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki\">Bill Seitz</a>\n                </div>\n                <a href=\"#comment-221090995\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2008-02-15T02:43:28\">2008-02-15T02:43:28</time></a>\n            </div>\n            <div class=\"content\"><p>I vote for learning Pylons by doing XoxoOutliner in it.</p></div>\n            \n        </li>\n    \n        </ul>\n    \n        </div>\n    ",
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