garcara

If beer counts as a hobby (drinking it) then count me in there.. But more seriously I take cooking pretty seriously as well as fly fishing and running.

This might be clever for them but I hate seeing these dimmed items, dimmed != ignored.

I would suggest the icons on the left side of the weather (I didn't even see them the first 2 times I looked and I felt they were missing). I don't mind the vertical presentation but I would suggest you do something to distinguish the days such as different background colors. Right now they kinda blend into each other in my opinion. A simple fix to put the weather as the highlight of the page would be to put it where the comments are. Most people read left to right.

http://bret.appspot.com/entry/how-friendfeed-uses-mysql

This is a really good article that can get you started with this idea. You would have to develop your own solution but a lot of good ideas here.