What has it been about 4 years or something now? Well I'm in Spain. I've been keeping afloat by doing contracting work for websites. Most all of my programming is in PHP now... do have one or two VB projects of my own.

Building a new News exploration site ... www.newsbubbles.org/bubbleit.php?q=obama
... for instance is a good search, (always stays fresh). It reads all the news from about 1,000 sources on a daily. The way it works is it extracts the subject clauses of the articles that match your search, then it does a popularity contest to which one is more relevant and more recent. After that, it creates a top-20 list of subject clauses or "bubbles" and then outputs them in a spiral, (most important and recent bubble closest to the center) using images to represent the words. It's not really a search engine as much as it is an exploratory engine. You're traversing through a matrix of related subjects that changes over time. Right now, I'm still in the beginning phases, put the site up about 4 days ago... but would love all of the input of my old friends here. If this is a success, I plan on using the bubbling technology to bubble more things like blogs or conversations in message boards or chats, etc.

~Tax - Decoding the News Matrix

crap, lol, URL didn't show up right... here
NewsBubbles - Obama

play with it a bit and tell me what you think :)

It looks neat but it gets a little cramped since everything looks so close together. It's a neat design and interesting concept though.

thanks for the feedback :)

Remember me? Heh I have been busy with electronics lately and pirate radio. I haven't coded anything in a while sadly but I still have all that knowledge in the back of my head if I ever need it.
Kind of neat to talk to people from so far back.
We need a major update to quick basic. Lets get some kind of QB like IDE running in windows. Sure there is Visual Basic, but it just doesn't cut it. Hmmm...

Most people are forgetting their roots and give into FreeBASIC these days. FreeBASIC is pretty good albeit there are some differences. FB has a separately packaged IDE and the code generation is different. FB writes the BASIC code to Assembly and then compiles it in this packaged Assembler program.

I tried making a QB IDE for Windows but it's tough to get something good since I didn't want it to look too flashy nor too plain.

There is a Classic Qbasic IDE for windows in the works. It's being developed for the QB64 project and meant to compile QB64. Should be released in a couple of weeks. Have a look at the IDE preview here:
http://qb64.net/forum/index.php?topic=77.0

Wow, I've seen this too! QB64 is almost like QB45. I tried it out and it looks very neat.