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Latest items on the hacklog:

• Write a small GUI tool to parse and emit stats from RoR log files. These files are not really structured but the term color markup should help.
• Fed up with less than satisfactory solutions, I'm writing my own app for personal finance. Cocoa, bindings, leaving the door open for CoreData. A lot of discussions with V. about that, there must be some ways to approach this differently from all the very form-based, cumbersome things I see in other apps.
• A growing fascination for RDF data stores, and the ongoing meme about having an agile, rails-like framework with a RDF datastore instead of an ActiveRecord / SQL thing. Not totally convinced for now with the idea of being driven by an OWL model. Let's dig into this deeper.
• After an email exchange with Karl, I'm toying with the idea of adding a alternate RDF representation for MindFood. Should be easy.
• The GCC/CIL summer project apparently made great progress but was not completed. It would be a worthwhile piece of the puzzle. But apparently Ruby.NET was comitted a few days ago.
• On the Java front, it seems that dynamic (typing) languages are on the radar for Mustang. Good to know. But the mandatory-MS-and-CLR-bashing is quite childish, and when you remember the opinion Sun had about other languages than Java on the JVM, it's a bit ridiculous to read things like "you can program [the CLR] in whatever you want, as long as it is basically C#"

Oh, and I tweaked the look on MindFood. Eh, Nuby on Rails said that "Every modern Ruby on Rails site should feature some kind of gradiated background and probably some little diagonal lines somewhere, although that’s kind of late-90’s retro". I still have to found where to put the diagonal lines.