this last two weeks were unique in that i got to meet, for the first time, 3 folks with whom i've *virtually* worked with via myjxta and associated projects. that was *so* fun. it is amazing that given a smidge of im/irc, via myjxta of course, you realy get to know people, quite well in fact.

first up, i got a chance to sit down and chat with mark petrovic a bit where we chatted about juxta in general and furthered some of our jxta configuration discussions of late. i still owe a bit of code to this regard, something i've been meaning to add to ext:config for awhile anyways. mark is a huge motivater for to those involved with myjxta and associated projects. he also has some fun ideas in the areas of collaboration. i'm really glad mark took a bit of time out of his busy schedule to stop by my little corner of the jxta-plex world.

next up, henry story was in town. i met henry via the bloged project but having done a bit of real-time language translation in the past turns out i've used his code long ago as he was the *bblfish* behind alta vista's language translation tools. henry's done a killer job w/ bloged and given we've talked about the possibilities of bringing our varied domain experiences together at some point in time it feels like the time is right to play through some of the ideas. should be a fun ride!

last up, bob way stopped by for a visit. bob's got a ton of ideas and even more domain knowledge in the areas of search, content distribution, copy right entitlements and the like. while bob was in town polo was online so we hooked up a little myjxta video chat.

i'm glad i got to meet and work with these folks in the borderless world that is opensource ... and in the very real world as well.

good times! better times coming! happy holidays all!

MyJXTA :: use it - learn it - do it

Java == platform independence
XML == application independence
JXTA == network independence

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