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As promised, I'm back. I bet you didn't even miss me. Not even a little bit? Oh well let's get on with some quick and random thoughts to start the week:

1. As always I had a great time with my friend (Keith) in from out of town. I met him sometime around the 4th grade or so and somehow we've managed to stay in touch (and friends) ever since. This time around we headed down to Atlantic City Sat. for a little gambling and sight seeing...and just in case you missed my post yesterday (or couldn't figure it out) neither of us did so well financially this time. Luckily we are not big gamblers so after we dropped about 200 each, we called it a day and drove back to my house.

2. I've been reading a lot more blogs and things the past month or so; it's amazing the difference in quality and quantity that's out there on the various topics I'm most interested in. More amazing is how much I tend to agree with people on various topics (I thought I was much less of a conformist).

3. There are a few things I'm really interested in doing projects with this year (and that I think a lot of others are as well)...

A. The first is SMS and text messaging (my hope is to build out SMS versions of all the botfu games but the entry cost is where I'm currently stuck -- been looking into clickatell but haven't figured out if it's financially doable just yet).

B. Stack-based languages like Factor -- I'm not sure if it's just me, or just because I happen to be playing around with it a lot right now...but it seems like the programming industry as a whole is starting to pay more and more attention to stack-based languages. So far it's been a lot of fun toying around with Factor and I plan to continue to soak up as much as I can...I haven't settled on a specific project to tackle with Factor just yet, but I'm sure I will very soon.

C. Widgets -- they've actually been popular for quite a while now, but I think there's still a lot of room for well done widgets and quite possibly good money in widget building and serving. There are a lot more non-tech. people than there are tech. and more and more they seem to be wanting to 'do' more online. They will be more than happy to utilize as many plug-and-play widgets as they can to help them.

I think that's it for today -- tomorrow if I have time I hope to start digging into the Factor regular expression stuff; so you can probably expect a post on my findings with that before too long!