Rough few days for world leaders; Ariel Sharon had a second, much more severe stroke and the outlook isn't good. Someone else died but perhaps slipped under the radar - Sheik Maktoum bin Rashin al Maktoum of Dubai died while on holiday in Australia. Sheik Maktoum has watched over his Emirate as it transformed itself from sleepy oil-rich sub-Arab state into a trendy international glam-state that is setting the pace for travel and tourism as well as development business. Plus, he pushed the Victory Team that was the source of much of my work at MPYD. Michael even met him once, but in all of his (Mike's) excitement he shook hands with the wrong person. Whhooooooops.

With some sadness I watched the end of (college) football season. Goodbye to marching bands, goodbye to shirtless fans, goodbye to to 97 rows of stands. After losing, Matt Leinart was so lost that he said "well it was a hard-fought win." Uh, Matt, you lost bud. Sorry. It's going to be a long off-season for Wolverine faithful as we look forward with more than a little trepidation to September 16th - the first road game of the year and our first loss of each season since 1999.

I've been up to this and that preparing for school, which results in entire days without much quantifiable stuff to report. However, much of my effort has been going into the afore-mentioned Art on View website and that is a deliverable. I've never really 'developed' a website per se, so I didn't know how much real work there was in making sure that every little thing worked from every possible angle. Sure sure, this one works fine, but it is frame-less and blogger.com provides much of the difficult coding free and automatically every time I hit "Publish Post." For AoV I'm developing all of it, including a randomly-generated sample page and the CSS (cascading style sheets) that force every page to look identical and allow changes to a single file to be propogated throughout the site. "God is in the details" said Le Corbusier of, fittingly, architecture. His successors flipped his stance and said "the Devil is in the details," and I'm not sure who has got it right.