Today Macrobyte released a small tool called Formz. It's a set of scripts for managing html forms. Greg Pierce wrote it a couple of years ago for the forms in Conversant's administrative interface, and we've been using it ever since. It's a nice little tool.

This is a big deal, because it's the first step on the road to Conversant being released to the developer community.

None of us really expect Formz to cause much excitement among developers. Most don't actually have to generate as many forms automatically as we do. The real point of this post is how excited I am that the process has finally started!

Something about Greg, briefly: when he writes something that works, he's able to put it down and move on to the next task. That's a very useful "feature" on a development team.

I found a link to a journal/weblog run by a security guard at the Olympics, and he said something so funny I had tears coming out of my eyes.

We were thinking of other games that might be improved by the inclusion of guns -- the way Biathalon improved upon boring old cross-country skiing:

1.) Bobsled - A couple of sled mounted rifles and targets on the track. The expensive track-side seats would sure drop in price.

2.) Figure Skating - Michelle Kwan with a couple of six shooters would be dreamy. [I'd pay to hear Scott Hamilton say "Salchow! -- Pow! Pow!"]

3.) Curling - Give the opposing team a 12 gauge and two shells - Americans would start paying attention. You'd have to work around the divets.

You'll find the whole story in his archives... unfortunately, he doesn't have any permalinks, so search for "Guns and snow". Most of what I've seen on there is a good read.