the internet is wonderful (as in, still fills me with wonder)

I think friend feed is fabulous. I suggest you sign up to it immediately so I can stop asking you how you are, and simply read your feed.

I stumbled upon it today - it's an aggregator of internet lives. As most of my life is online, it is my life. Cutest thing: i can have imaginary friends :)

The other site that popped into my life today is Google's recent acquisition; GrandCentral. "snipped--removed-my-account-sick-of-wrong-numbers!--"

I picked a random US number. What the hey! They don't have Canada (an irritatingly common omission), and many family/friends are in Australia, so it's just another international number. What's great (aside from magical online voicemail bizo; I don't enjoy talking on the phone) is the ability to direct the call to one or more variable numbers.

I'm terribly excited about the current WebSphere Portal SSO implementation I'm assigned to. The requirements are to build "sample" porlets to demonstrate capabilities. Do you know what that means?

No interface niceties, pure code.

Also, the WebSphere Portal V6 is pretty excellent in terms of configuring rules for personalization, etc. It's no wonder I was at the office til after 7 tinkering with it ;)

As a result, it was so damn cold when I left, my face went numb in minutes. My nose started running, but I couldn't feel it until it hit my mouth. *ewrweurwerughghhghhhh*

pure blue sky, pure winter cold

The sky is clear, and the air is frozen. Ah Toronto, I'm back from Australia's summer and just when I was starting to like (well maybe not like, but, get used to!) the snow, you went and froze all that melt water and turned the pavements into a giant skating course.

Although, I would like to note, there are brilliant Torontonians out there who hate wading through/jumping over the slush puddles on street corners.