Hello world. Going to be sleeping at a clinic tonight for my first sleep apnea re-test in years. This should be interesting.

Trying something slightly in writing here different today - going to try to arrange outline notes in some top-down narrative order. So, if you start from "Hello world" at the beginning of the day and read down, it should at least make sense as a ramble across the day.

Dave Winer: "All the more reason why I need the OPML Editor (an instance of the Frontier scripting environment) running in mobile form."

Hmm, I've got most of the parts - in rough form - to build a browser-based outliner that speaks XML-RPC via AJAX back to an OPML Community Server. I wonder if I could finish it and make it work? And I wonder if it would work on an iPhone? Hmm, it uses a lot of keyboard shortcuts - I wonder how the touch interface could translate to browser events and a useful outlining environment?

Jakob Nielsen: "...I recommended that he should instead invest his time in writing thorough articles that he published on a regular schedule. Given limited time, this means not spending the effort to post numerous short comments on ongoing blogosphere discussions."

Tom Morris: "Perhaps someone should put a gun to Jakob Nielsen's head and force him to Twitter. It's about fun, not reputation." Hee hee.

I guess Jakob Neilsen would not approve of this short-form blog. The funny thing is, I tend to think that given limited time, I won't often cross the threshold toward writing articles. Thus, if I limited myself to that, then nothing would get from my head to the web. I'll stay quiet, as I've demonstrated throughout the past few years. I suppose if my rambings here are annoying, that might be a good thing. But, I have found some value to just floating a stream of small thought bubbles, any one of which might expand into something bigger when they run into others'.

More random web framework thoughts: It actually surprises me that PHP 5 is so low in adoption as to require a Go PHP 5 campaign. The more I think about it, I wonder if an insistence on PHP 5 actually wrecks the idea of "runs where WordPress does" for all practical purposes? And, if that idea's wrecked - would the bar for installing something like a Django app be significantly higher? Because, really, ubiquity is the single reason I'm even bothering with PHP. But that tolerance is thin enough that I'm not willing to put up with PHP 4. Life's too short.