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Had one of those funky coincidences tonight as I got home from dinner and got on the elevator here in Chicago. I noticed that the man that walked into the elevator with me seemed very familiar. "Do we know each other?", I ask.

"Yes, I believe we do."

"Are you a ThoughtWorker?", I ask, since given the amount of business that we give Club Quarters, it would not be a farfetched guess.

"No."

Luckily, it hit me that this familiar fellow was Harold Solbrig of the Mayo Clinic, who I met last summer in Madrid at the Protoge conference around the time I was pitching deep integration of semantic web and dynamic languages. Funny thing is, my humble Ruby seeds planted in Madrid have sprouted. Not only did Harold recognize who I was, turns out he has roots in computer language design and is interested in making some Ruby + Ontology magic of his own.

I know at least a few of you reading this blog originally subscribed for the semantic stuff that I was wrote about back then. At some point I decided that it was a little ahead of its time and my efforts would be better spent evangelizing Ruby and Rails overall, but if you are still interested in the topic: why not go ahead and drop me a line? I'll definitely hook you up with others that share the same interest and have written me over the course of the last six months. If there is enough interest maybe we can even go ahead and start a small mailing list or Google Group to keep in touch with each other.