@iPhone - I can’t believe how cheap they are, in the UK we basically get £150 off, for the same contract, and same term length (18 months). However £60 will go towards my MobileMe subscription, which I think is going to be pretty impressive, all I want is the syncing, however it will be good to use the apps for inspiration.

@EntreList - Maybe we should only stick a few select tags, wipe what’s currently there, and just make sure we only use tags that are going to be used often. E.g: EntreList, External (for twitter, facebook, IILWY, etc), Wakoopa, TheWineGod, VoiceTracker. Obviously the list would be added to as we start new and exciting projects. I have a few more ideas, but will think them over before plurking them out (sounds like an appropriate phrase!) on Entrelist.

Speaking of which, I’ll just give a short run down of what I am up to at the moment. ThinkRefresh is coming along nicely, I am working on a series called Rails 101, for beginning Rails development, however there will be a lot of non-Rails Ruby content. My boss is going on a trip abroad next week to source wine for TheWineGod, and I will be beginning the e-commerce system.

I have been making a central account manager for use within a set of applications (CMS, e-commerce, issue tracking, client login etc), and in doing so I decided to port out the authentication as a plugin for Rails called Authenticaterb (http://github.com/ryantownsend/authenticaterb) which is also coming along great. I’ll soon be releasing another plugin aimed at easy to implement spam filtering.

@Rails - I haven’t started that long ago, so consider me a novice For practice - and because I think it’s of great personal benefit to me - I’m developing an app to help train my vocabulary.
@Ryan - I’ll check out your site tomorrow. Neil speaks very highly of you, so I’m sure there will be stuff that’ll be of use to my project(s). Thanks for your offer btw!

@TheWineGod - Cool! Michael Pollan’s book ‘In Defense of Food’ http://www.michaelpollan.com/indefense.php has convinced me I should drink more alcohol on weekdays, preferably red wine. But it’s a bit annoying as a starting wine drinker to know which wines go with what dishes/ingredients, so this app sounds especially nice for a starter like me Put me on the beta-user list!