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Volity World HQ's office net connection got dead. Actual Volity services, being hosted in California, are not affected by this. But you're going to have trouble getting ahold of me or the Andys via Internet, at least until RCN sends over The Guy tomorrow.

Telephone is most reliable until then. (I'm presently in our alternate office, with a medium decaf...)

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I had a nice chat yesterday with Andy Oram, a longtime editor at O'Reilly, about Volity. It resulted in him writing this entry in his own blog: http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/05/volity_opensource_interactive.html

I am pleased that our websites are in such a state that even hardened veterans of the open source scene like Andy take one look at it and immediately get intensely interested.

Not to say that I didn't have to make the effort to point it out to him. I got the idea to write him the night before last, when I remembered having a chat about games and gaming culture at a party two Decembers ago. This reinforces the fact that I really gotta keep pushing to get the message out there... the influx of developers I wrote about a couple of weeks ago hit a plateau shortly after that.

Things are better then they were a year ago, when I was. Then Zarf got involved, and much more recently than that we've had a low but constant level of outside developer interest. It's the last that I really need to ratchet up, and now.

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I think as I get older my tolerance for people's delusions and other wrongnesses drops. It's got a long way to go, but I don't foresee anything slowing down its inexorable descent.

It still think is good that children are taught to be maximally tolerant, though, rather than just inheriting their parents' intolerances. It's good to figure these things out for yourself, as a young adult. I believe the conclusions you'll come to that way are much more likely to be correct.

That said, one reason that I want to become rich is that I want to do all that I can to help crush wrongness. Ah yes.