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Woke up at 5:45 yesterday to get an early start on the summer. Drove up to Bear Mt. with Alex and friend Matty (sp?) for a little hiking and introduction to bird watching from the man himself. Like most other pursuits these days, the technology really makes a difference. Good binoculars are a must for enjoying this very peaceful and meditative endeavor. And looking through them all day is not unlike staring at a screen (although a very high resolution one.) Thought a lot (again) about using natural landscapes to model data. Also I realized (although this may not be true) that xml has some serious problems. It might be the case that the data (the content) is itself the most consise (meta-data) description of itself. Or, in other words, it might be that we will not be able to decide on any but the most trivial schemas to share in common. Oh well. Still more thinking to be done.