It's time for another four day weekend. I finished off my XML research towards the end of the week here and will spend the weekend designing the interface between the Music Fundamentals Shockwave apps and the web browser. Essentially, the apps will report on the progress of the student user after every activity. The web page where the app is hears this report and tells another program to record that information to a student progress file. I haven't decided whether to do this with an applet, a servlet, or more Shockwave yet, so if you have any suggestions, please let me know.

This first half should take about a month to code and test. Once it's sound, I'll start the second half, which involves writing an Instructor tool to quickly tabulate student files in meaningful ways. Hopefully my final product will be better than the chicken-feces approach used in Practica Musica.

The basketballers beat PBS&J last night 120-105. Or not so much "beat" as "lost to", and not so much "120" as "20".