I finally got around to working my way through a Ruby on Rails tutorial, and was very, very impressed. If you don’t have time to install Rails and follow along with the steps in the tutorial, at least do a quick read through Curt Hibbs’ Rolling with Ruby on Rails article in O’Reilly’s onlamp.com to get an idea of how easy it is to set up a useful application.

I answered my first few LinkedIn invitations with an RDF geek response: “look, I’ll point to your FOAF file if you want to point one at mine.” When I started gathering information for a job search, Ken North suggested that I reconsider my attitude about LinkedIn, so I joined up. The first surprise was how many RDF geeks I saw there. The XML community in general is pretty well-represented.

After five years of working on XML architecture and metadata issues on a huge scale at perhaps the world’s oldest commercial online information provider, I’ll be moving on in late March, and I’m looking for interesting new opportunities. (“A-ha!” say all the friends wondering about my recent interest in LinkedIn.)