I went to the Hospital today. Shots, blood workup, pills and scheduled to go back on Thursday to be put out and under the knife. Well, yes, it's all happening, but not to me, it's happening to my poor kitty named Lexi. She is quite mad at me and hiding much of the day.

RANT DAY Today's vicim is Micro$oft for their launch of Hailstorm. Yes, the day that MS has dreamed of for years has finally arrived. The day that they insert themselves into each and every single transaction online. Every bit of your personal profile will be soon (man)handled by the beast of a component to Micro$ofts .NET services. Here is a sampling of your information that will be kept by this entity: myAddress - electronic and geographic address for an identity - myProfile - name, nickname, special dates, picture -- myContacts – electronic relationships/address book -- myLocation - electronic and geographical location and rendevous -- myNotifications – notification subscription, management and routing -- myInbox - inbox items like email, voicemail, etc., including existing mail systems -- myCalendar – time and task management -- myDocuments – raw document storage -- myApplicationSettings - application settings -- myFavoriteWebSites – favorite URLs, etc. -- myWallet - receipts, payment instruments, coupons, etc. -- myDevices – device settings, capabilities -- myServices – provisioned services for an identity -- myUsage – usage report for above services Just say NO to bad ideas!

Aright, I'm starting to get the swing of things with these voice applications. My latest one Tell-A-Joke Thanks right, just call in to 1800 555 TELL x 1-45653 (4JOKE) and you can record your own jokes. Have them ranked an reviewed by our listeners and see which ones they liked! Let me know if you have ideas for other voice applications for me to build!

Do I Sound Hot or Not - the hot new interactive phone service. Record your best line and listen to and rate what others have said! (This is actually just a quick little VXML application that I whipped up last night. Tell me what you think!)

While I take interest in the demise of dot coms, rarely does one go out with the rage and flash that eFront.com is about to go out in. "A disgruntled employee obtained some crucial ICQ logs, which show the true spirit behind eFront. It includes cheating on banner companies, cheating on top100 sites, talking about raping a female webmaster because she doesn't agree on some points, tax evasion, delaying payment to webmasters, literally harrassing sites out of existance and all kinds of other nasty stuff." Wow. Quite a story. I'm sure this will be making real headlines soon.

Oh my. Well, I guess that I am now looking for a job, since my last gig is over now. If anyone needs a good java developer, let me know.