We're getting close to a lot of things right now; close to the holidays (which is goodness if you're into that kind of thing,) close to crowds, close to visits with inlaws, maybe even close to crowds of inlaws. On the economic front, the Dow is close to the 80-year correlated trend line with GDP growth, which is either good news or bad news depending on your financial position. Read more.

.....in beta, and I'm really encouraged by the amount of traffic we're seeing and the interaction starting to happen on the forums. We have a big, honkin’ list of stuff that we want to do in order to make this site better, and I'd love to hear from the development community on what you guys would most like to see. Has anyone tried out the "Getting Started" guide? How's the documentation working for you? Does green annoy you? If so, too bad, we're pretty unlikely to change that ;^). Let us know what you think. Read more.