A Few Updates

Well, it has been almost two months since my last post, but life has been a little on the crazy side.  Life gets that way from time to time I suppose.  Hopefully I can avoid being such a stranger in the future.

Recently, my friend Joshua Cyr introduced me to Plurk, a web site that strikes me as an improved Twitter-like social network.  After using the service for a few days it has really grown on me.  For those of you who are not familiar with the service, the updates you and your friends post shows up on a timeline showing the date and time of your plurk.  You can then add replies to the plurks and create a dialog.

After using it for a while, I realized the potential of using a timeline to represent time-based events.  Joshua was also kind enough to point me towards CFTimeline by Todd Sharp.  It allows you easily throw together a timeline based on XML or JSON data (honestly I have not had a chance to play with it other than quickly skimming over the documentation to view the implementation.)  I thought it would be cool to create a timeline off WhosOnCFC to see a timeline of current users logged in as well as the 24 hour history provided by WhosOnCFCStats.