A few things before I take off

Im off for a few weeks tomorrow. Going on vacation.

But before I go, I wanted to give an update on what I have been up to. I do now have a job. This was a really touchy subject because I found my self with 3 wonderful job offers with 3 wonderful companies. Making a decision was the hardest part of all. I think if you read Predictably Irrational (see below)  you may understand why. But I ended up going with a Startup Company based around Affective Computing. I will be doing Interaction and Industrial designer for them and I can’t say how excited I am. It is just such a cool area of work.

My friend bought me this book for my birthday (last Feb) and I just had a chance to read it on a recent train trip to NYC. I really recommend it to anyone who ever wonders why people make such ridicules decisions. (myself). Dal Aliely does a spot on job not only explaining the irrationality of people, but also proves it in some really great (and great reading) ways. It is not too complicated, and is a very fun read. Thanks Zack!

I have been working on bildr a bunch, and have a little better version on the front page going on. It has a lot more content, and hopefully will give people a better idea of what t will be all about. But… I have also been working on the proof of concept, and just finished an alpha version of a visual category editor.

You may have seen this before (see video below) on my theses work. Well I had to have it. So today I spent most the day working on making it a reality. Like I said it is still in alpha, but I would Imagine within a month this will be a true reality for anyone who wants it on their wiki. It uses a ton of MooTools work, and 4 ajax/json calls. But I think when I can get the API calls to work via PHP and that will really speed it up and reduce its footprint.

Anyways, that is what I have been up to. Ill see you in a couple of weeks.

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