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Ever wonder where my titles come from most of the time? Whatever song’s playing on my stereo/iTunes usually. You’re a smart bunch, though. I’m sure you had that figured out ages ago.

Not a lot of new news on the Ruby on Rails front for me. Not that I haven’t been playing with it, but I think I’ve taken my todo list application as far as I can take it at this point. I’ve made it so you can set due dates and stuff, and found out that AJAX isn’t going to really help me with anything on it. The changes need to be permanent, obviously, and AJAX doesn’t do permanent.

So I guess it’s time to find another project/tutorial and start working on it. A lot of people have suggested the Four Days on Rails tutorial but it’s about making another todo list and just how many of those can one man use? So I’m going to have to scour the ‘net some more and see what I can find. I don’t feel strong enough to start out on my own yet. Another few tutorials and a book and I’ll have enough under my belt to really start on my own.

That project I mentioned last time? The one that no one commented on or even mentioned. Yeah, I’m still thinking about it. My idea is that it’d be like a social networking site, but without all the “friends” and “match” crap. You’d come and fill out a questionnaire of (perhaps) ten random questions drawn from the database. Where do these ten questions come from? Whenever someone signs up, they suggest at least one new question for the set. Want to fill out more than ten questions? That’s cool, just go into your profile and answer more questions. More suggestions? That’s fine, too. You’d also be able to suggest the removal of questions. If a question had enough removal votes, it goes away, never to be seen again, until someone suggests it again. Eventually you’d have a list of questions that people really want answered about their fellow humans. Minus the few “how big’s your dick/boobs?” questions by the asshats of the web. Heaven help me on the Google results that’s going to get me.

Well, I guess that’s enough rambling right now. Oh, two last notes. One of my readers/commenters has finally gotten his site up and running, so go to Brit’s site and check it out.

Also, Max has produced two of his best (in my humble opinion) pieces this week. Check out his page #5 of Quick Step and the July pin-up. Keep up the awesome work, Max.