Today, I got my first dose of Twitter smack down, as my account was suspended along with a bunch of others following yesterday's Gov 2.0 Expo.  Ouch!  Well, at least I'm in good company. As one of the commenters on the Tech Crunch article noted, a situation like this is definitely a bit of a wake-up call about relying on one service for your communications.  I felt eerily powerless this morning when I couldn't tweet about not being able to tweet...

When I couldn't sleep the other night, I started mocking up a zippy drag-n-drop front end for Trac, based on the snappy UI of tools like Things (working title is FasTrac).  Then, bam! Bitten by a weird, seems-like-a-bug w/ jQuery UI drag and drop.  It appears that droppables aren't discoverable by draggables if the droppable has a fixed width.  I have a hard time believing that's true, yet here I am.  I posted to the jQuery UI list, but haven't heard back yet. Any ideas?  I'm sure I'm missing something super obvious... Here's a working example illustrating the problem.

Introducing the newest member of the clan: Theo.  It's now been nearly two weeks since Theo joined us, and it's been pretty amazing (and tiring) thus far.  I've been intentionally keeping him off of the public intertubes, but figured one cute "hello, world" shot was safe enough.  I am enjoying every minute, while secretly waiting for him be big enough to play baseball|basketball|golf|skiing|tennis|surfing|football with dad....