Having worked for nearly a year on a roughed out codebase I siezed the opportunity to do what I'd wanted to do with the core client project at Clean Power Finance (cleanpowerfinance.com) on a smaller project -- a form wizard. In this context the forms were literal paper forms -- a series of forms that the state requires printouts of to approve a solar panel installation.

The project is quite self contained and amenable to Zend Framework treatment. The forms themselves will be driven by config file data provided by an independent contractor who parsed the original forms.

Things I hate about my iPhone

The largest greatest bookstore in SF is closing.... I blogged this at ManateeBay.com; see the full article there.

http://www.limelife.com/blog-entry/Bill-Gates-Releases-Mosquitoes-On-Techies/2371.html Bill Gates released a jar of mosquitos into a tech conference; potential infectees included Tony Robbins and Malcolm "Tipping Point" McDowell. The mosquitos were Malaria free, unlike the ones from the Vista R & D department...

I am creating another iteration of Wonderland Labs; the former was a free-form XOOPS-enabled wiki. Part of the rationale for this is an excuse to explore Drupal. But I also want a cleaner, more "Web 2"ish structure, and XOOPS is kind of showing its age.