So, I have been thinking about the LOPSA tools project. From what I understand, it is supposed to be something of an SA tools encyclopedia. At the first, I thought a wiki would be the best way to do this. But looking at $company's internal wiki project, I am beginning to think otherwise. At the moment, my thought is wiki-like, but with categories (tags or somesuch). In wiki tradition, anyone can add or edit content, then choose some categories to add it to. Also, with editing, another user could come along and say 'I use $tool in $othercategory' and add the category. I'm thinking if a tool already exists in $category, it's not an option to add, but there may be a way to 'vote' a category. Have the popular categories shown for the tool. That way if 100,000 people use $tool for file system manipulation, but 2 people use it for network tuning, I might just want to see what they are doing. Of course, since I trust no one, this would be moderated.

Of course this should be moderated, because no one but me is interested...

I've been thinking about death lately. A coworker recently had a grandparent die, and I don't know how to approach that. "My condolences" seems pretty lame. How should I know how she feels about this. I recently had death in my life, and looking at it objectivly it seems pretty small. My cat died on December 22. I broke down. It was the start of a 'forced' vacation, so I got to spend a holiday week with myself (and my other cats). I don't think I will ever refer to another as 'my cat'. Because she was my cat. Baby had been with me for most of my adult life. She came into my life when I was, what, 19? I was in college. She was with me for some of college life, for my marriage, divorce, single life, and moving to Arizona. For some 14 years she was the touchstone of my life. Things change and get thrown into upheaval, but she was there and I could trust and believe in that. The baby is here and all is right. Now, she's not here and I don't really know what the hell I am doing.