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This Tabulas is like a sandwich. The boring parts are the bread and consist of most of the "real" content, while the stupid entries filled with narcissism and self-deprecation are like the delicious inner burger. Sometimes you just want to RIP out the burger and eat it with your hands, even if your hands would them be covered with ketchup and mustard and your sister looks over at you in disbelief and covers her eyes with her hands and tries to tell everybody that her brother is just a bit hungry and not really that crazy and just starts crying and then the little kids get sad and start crying and ... wait. what?

Oh yeah. So I've been knocked out of commission this past week due to an illness... I could only spend what little waking hours I had for my job, so I had ot wait until I got better (yesterday) before I could tackle some of my personal projects. Right now on the plate is swarmf ...

Tonight I wrapped up work on inline editing (so all clippings and page edits are done from inline dialogs, although the actual saves trigger reloads, I can change that later too) and a HUGE feature: dynamic columns. You can specify in the new version how many columns you want and you can DRAG them to specific widths. This doesn't sound important, but it's HUGE in being able to control the layout of your swarmf topic pages. The more I work on this, the more I realize I'm simply building a layout editor for clippings. It's a lot of fun, in any case.

I had a cool idea: if in the future the layout editor gets pretty stable, it'd be cool if suggested clippings appeared in a horizontal scrollable strip; an "editor" (swarmf topic owner) could simply drag and drop these items into the existing layout ... how SWEET would that be? You could even automate the horizontal strip so it pulled from an existing RSS feed or something.

In any case, I'm going to make a quick listfoo of items left to do with swarmf before I hit the sack. It feels good to not be sick.