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We’re all familiar with water, right?  You know, H20?  Well in light of all the Web 2.0 “stuff” out there today, I’ve been asked to be part of a team working on a new version.

As you may or may not know, our current stable release is H21.  It is a maintenance release, with a few bug fixes.  But we’re we’re really proud of is our new Beta for version H30.  It’s a limited beta, so you have to be invited by someone who is already a beta particpant, but don’t ask me for an invitation.  I was only given a few and I’ve already given them out.

So, besides the new spelling, you might be wondering what’s new in Watr H3.0.  Well, here’s a short list:

• Rewritten from the ground up using Ruby on Rails and AJAX
• A public REST API*
• A public SOAP API*
• Even more Hydrogen than before!
• Baked in tag support, bringing a whole new meaning to the phrase “tag cloud”
• RSS/Atom feeds
• User-generated content
• and more! 

* = Available in a future release

This is all very exciting, as you can imagine.  Due to the “limited beta” status, I’ve said about all I can say about this, but keep your eyes open for our public beta in the near future.

[;)]

Regardless of what you’ve heard or read, Google is evil. Here is proof.

[;)]

Wow.  I just checked my site stats, which I normally get around to about once a month.  I’m surprised to see that I’ve had three days with over 5,000 hits in the last 7 days, one of them being nearly 7,000 hits.  I know those numbers aren’t huge, but I’m happy to see them given my typical volume and content of posts.  Normally, I average around 3,000 hits/day on this site, so I was a little suprised to see those numbers given that I haven’t posted much recently until today.

Now that I’ve thought about it, though, it makes sense for two reasons:

1. Deeper in .NET was this weekend, and a good number of referrals are related to that.
2. I just took down my other site, www.scottisaacs.com, and forwarded all of that traffic here.

Now if I could just find a way to turn 5,000 hits into 50,000 hits…. and then find a way to turn each hit into $10….

Hmmmm…  [;)]

Most people know what a haiku is, right?  A three line poem, with 5 syllables on the first line, 7 on the second and 5 more on the third, adding to 17.

Well, I was browsing ThinkGeek and saw this one.  (Keep refreshing and you’ll eventually see it.)

Writing a poem
In seventeen syllables
Is very diffi

I thought it was hilarious, but then I haven’t been sleeping much the last few days.

Saw this today on Seth Godin’s blog.

According to optionsScalper, I make the web “suck less” with some things I posted earlier this month here and here.

Just doing my job, ma’am.  Just doing my job.  😉