I am feeling old and good at the same time. :-) Becoming a happy old man is set to be a sort of life goal for me at this stage. Your message does bring up many fond memories about NYC at the end of last century. I enjoyed my grad student years there very much.

By the way, keep up the good work in the W3C social web working group, activipy, and others. That is interesting and important stuff! Coming from a programming language background, I keep a keen interest in these too.