Into the Woods

Minor Surgery

Last Tuesday, I had a minor surger on my back. About 1 and a half years ago, I had a mole removed off my back. They did a sample scrape off with a scalple and biopsied it. They said it was of no real risk, but that it had some atypical features and when I shared the pathology recently with a dermatoligist in Boston, she wanted to remove it. I thought it wouldn’t be a big deal, but they had me on the operating room table for 30 minutes and cut a 6cm incission in the middle of my back, and sowed it up with 3 layers of stiches. Fortunately, they biopsied the re-excised area and found only scar tissue. So thankfully, all those days of kiteboarding and wakeboarding this summer did not result in cancer. However, I can’t exercise for 2 weeks of which about 8 days are left.

New England is on the verge of a championship

A professional New England sports team is playing for the championship after making a very impressive playoff run the past two weekends. The New England Revolution (Major League Soccer) defeated D.C. United today at RFK stadium in Washington to take them to the MLS Cup championship next weekend. The level of play has been getting much better in the MLS. Especially after the MLS allstars beat Chelsea (the English Premiere League’s equivalent of the Yankees with 200+ million dollar payrol) in a hard-fought exhibition. So next Sunday when you are already sitting on the couch with beer, pizza and whatever else to watch the Patriots, Broncos, Cowboys or whowever, stick around and watch the Revs play for the championship on November 12th at 3:30pm on ABC.

Gigtimes.com: A new online community for local musicians

A took part in a pub crawl this past Saturday to benefit some sort of charity a few of my ski house friends are involved in.  My friend Laura’s roommate Brooke was on the pub crawl, and for one reason or another we started talking about the online community she has been working on over the past couple years.  Her website called “gigtimes.com” is an online community for local bands to meet with venue owners and of course to involve the fans as much as possible along the way.  The website has a solid foundation and seems to provide a home on the web for a passionate group of people.  However, Web 2.0 geeks like Lee, Elias, Wing and my other IBM buddies will notice that the site lacks many of the technologies of the Machine Readable Web we have come to expect in up-and-coming online communities.  I’m not saying I’m going to subject this poor unsuspecting entrepreneur to the horrors of RDFa, Microformats, Microtemplates, eRDF, and you probably won’t be writing a SPARQL query to findout when the next Indy-emo-punk-progressive-accoustic-electro-funk band is playing at the Middle East in Central Square,  but hopefully I can give Brooke a few hints on how to modernize her web site.

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