A certian user on certian photography website has led me to consider implementing a killfile for my userbase.  I plan to get to work on monday writing it into the codebase.  I'll be curious to see how it pans out in the long run.  What will Mr/Mrs. User do when half of their audiance has all their stories, comments and images hidden?  Only time will tell.  Only time will tell...

But seriously.  What else is new?  As one of the editors pointed out, it is amazing the site has grown to it's current size and NOT had more personality conflicts.

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I've started working on Artzaar this week.  After much consideration I've decided to do it using Ruby on Rails.  I've got image uploads, users and stories very crudely implemented.  It's a good start but I suspect there will be about a month or two before I have a version 1 product out the door. 

Artzaar, version 1.0, will let you host your weblog & photo album using your own domain.  The system will allow you to sell your photography through your website.  We will charge your customer and drop ship the high quality, framed photo to your customer from our printer.  You just sit back, refresh your stats every five minutes, and get a check at the end of every month.  No fuss, no certs, merchant accounts, paypal, HTML or anything.  Push the big red button.  Done.  You have a website and you are selling your art.

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There is an interesting discussion on the BoS forums about weird MicroISV stories.  It is funny because I have gone through a lot of socks lately.

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Anyway... off to diner & movie with the lady.  Cheers!