Driving up to work I saw the most utterly beatiful sunrise over Flanders fields. Immense difference in amount of energy to spent during the day (so it feels now)

Yeah, the early bird catches the worm! But it was never clear to me what that tells about the early worm... anyone?

Anyway, dig your own energy today cause I had no camera on me to provide you with any account of the experience.

Stefano writes about structuring data and when to do it. It made me think about the strong versus loose typing argument in multi-computer-language-land, and an anonymous quote I grabbed at a seminar once: "People are generally not interested in the types, just in the values."

Other (unstructured) associations:

• The way R. Pirsig describes the Platypus effect in his book Lila. Which is very nicely quoted in these rawnotes:

...that when the Platypus was discovered, scientists said it was a paradox. But Pirsig's point was it was never a paradox or an oddity. It didn't make sense only to the scientists because they viewed the nature of animals according to their own classification, when nature did not have any.

• The web usability expert articles advising us a long time ago to replace all those 'advanced search' forms with the simple one-line fulltext-search-box.
• The one-big-bag approach and the facetted browsing in Daisy of course.
• My kids.