Dave Winer tells the story of Dave Jacobs who survived a horrid disease, only to go on to make software that helps other people survive it too. It’s a great tech love story for Valentines eve.

Speaking of love. Hope you’re cuddling with your loved ones. Maryam and I are taking the rest of the evening off!

I have no idea how I’m going to tell her just how great she is. One way is by turning the computer off. See ya tomorrow!

I was a supporter of the nofollow link, which told search engines not to count that link in their popularity ranking algorithms.

But, after seeing Loren Baker’s post about how lame nofollow is, I find I’m changing my mind.

I’m very concerned, for instance, about Wikipedia’s use of nofollow. More and more of my friends say they now go to Wikipedia to search first before going to Google. Imagine a world where Wikipedia could lock Google out of key information. Wouldn’t it be ironic that something that Google invented could actually be used against it?

That said, I don’t go for the point that comment links should be judged by search engines the same as links in a blog. That sounds really elitist, I know, but I’m seeing all sorts of gaming going on in comments and it’s a lot easier to build authoritative Webs in blogs than in comments.

Over on GETV it’s Wii Fight Night. Irina is getting a little too excited about beating that “Ask a Ninja” guy (Kent Nichols).

Oh, this is why I enjoyed being over in Geneva last week. No one asked me to get up on stage and prove my Wiinadequacies. Fun to watch blog celebrities duke it out (Valleywag and Engadget writers were up there, among others).