Impressive amount of snow today -- all the digging I did yesterday when we got home is pretty much moot at this point. Huge swirling snowflake clusters are coming down from the sky and have been since we got up this morning. It's awfully pretty.
Amita June and I went out to Loblaw's in the old CPR Angus Shops to replenish our larder, which was pretty empty after our trip to NYC. We had a pretty easy time of it, although I thought I'd be smart and go through the self-service line with my huge cart, which took about 2-3 times longer than just having a professional or two deal with it. By the time we left, Amita was exhausted and she fell asleep in the car on the way home.
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Jodi Martin at the Lobby Lounge
My friend Jodi Martin is playing at the Lobby Lounge at 4538 av Papineau tonight (Sunday 18th Feb) from 7:30PM to 11PM. Jodi is a South Australian a beautiful voice; she's just an awfully decent person. I'm going to be there, after Amita goes to sleep tonight.
Jodi's also got a smouldering new pub photo here. I can't tell if she's gonna kiss you or punch you. I guess that's part of the magic.
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wikipatterns.com
One of the more interesting people I met at RecentChangesCamp 2007 was Stewart Mader, wiki evangelist for Atlassian and creator of ikiw.org (great domain name). We spent a lot of time talking about using wiki in education.
Stewart has just launched wikipatterns.com, a site that uses pattern language to describe wiki usage, wiki adoption, and wiki roles. Patterns and wiki have a long and illustrious history together, of course; Ward Cunningham's original wiki, the Portland Pattern Repository, was created to help software developers share design patterns.
Many patterns about wiki were first identified on Ward's wiki itself, and others have been elaborated on MeatballWiki and CommunityWiki, but as far as I know no site dedicated specifically to Wiki patterns has happened before. wikipatterns.com has some that I've never seen identified before, like the Content Alert and Scaffolds.
I'm interested to see how wikipatterns.com goes. I think it could be an extremely valuable resource. Currently a lot of the language is aimed towards company wikis, which is probably where a lot of Atlassian people's interest lies, but I'm more interested in creating big Open Content repositories based on the contributions of the entire Internet. It will be interesting to see how wiki patterns scale to fit both kinds of wikis.