Larry and I have signed up to compete in the Rails Rumble, a 48 hour web application development contest taking place this coming weekend. This contest is a great way to showcase the productivity of Ruby on Rails, our web framework of choice, as well as excellent practice in the embrace of constraints.

We're taking this opportunity to launch an idea of ours that we've had on the back burner for much too long. We're going to keep the name and purpose of the app secret until it's been launched. However, I will say that it will be open to the public, free, and useful to a wide range of people.

Look for a post here on October 19th, if we have any strength left in our fingers after 48 hours of coding. We can't wait to share our new app with the world.

I enjoy drawing and painting in my spare time (which seems to come up about twice a year now). I'm no Picasso in any sense, and the thought of drawing something exactly as I want the first time I set pencil to paper is out of the question for me.

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