Monkinetic Weblog

Jim Roepcke's got his copy of Mac OS X, too, and posted his first message from the Uber-OS.

The first post from... Mac OS X Public Beta! Oohhh, yesss!

I've been thinking about RDF again, this time as a means of describing relationships in software design. Business Processes, UI Screens, Participants, Database Tables - these all become resources, and the properties show the relationships between them. A Participant Uses a UI screen, a UI Screen Implements a Business Process, Participants Perform Business Processes... My analyst co-worker is drooling.

Mozilla on RDF.

XNS, or eXtensible Naming Service, is an XML+agent technology. Using XML is great, but XNS seems to have patented the agent technology (idea?) used with the XML. I think this will actually hinder the adoption of what seems to be an otherwise interesting idea. If we have to license XNS's agent patent in order to write compatible applications, then why use XML in the first place? I'm going to watch this one. [via Good Morning Silicon Valley]

MacAddict has an article on swiping the dev tools from Darwin and installing them on the OS X Public Beta.

"This is frighteningly close to the thin line that separates geekery and madness."

Mmmmmm, madness.

This is the link. I'm putting it here so I can find it later. This article is about XML, but it contains this high-quality quote re: the MVC architecture:

Been looking into RDF again... there's gotta be an app in there somewhere. A problem I see is that sometimes metadata is used to define data... something it isn't equipped to do efficiently. At a later time I may try to backup my statements, but not on the few hours of sleep I'm running on now.

(Via "HBWT") Microsoft has changed its pricing on Windows licenses, going after the lucrative "what-you-do-with-it-after-we-sell-it-to-you" market. It effectively doubles the price of the OS for small to medium businesses, and oh, and it's going to make them another $11 bn in revenue.

You can see how much here.

Window frames dry after painting

This is me, this weekend, in the garage. Notice, if you will, the Lava Java t-shirt, a gift from grateful coffee-house owners in Hawaii after I designed a new logo/packaging scheme for them for a design school project. (This shirt bears the previous logo. Full disclosure: they never used my work, after all.)

Sorry about the orientation on some of these... I haven't had time to clean them up.

Jodi scraping paint in the Trunk Room (it's a Victorian term)

The Trunk Room

The new wall and closet

Inside the new closet

Man with Fire.

Happy, is Man with Fire.

Fire! Fire! Fire! Hehe!

"to the man behind the curtain." Actually, do pay attention to the loads of webloggers who got together to participate in a fine bouquet of net community.

This was a looooong weekend. And I don't mean the number of days.

I've got a bunch of pics from this weekend, working on the house and such... I'll get them uploaded a bit later.

Wheatus - Teenage Dirtbag

Yeah, here I am in Baltimore, after getting up at 5:00 this AM... yuck.

Seth and crew just landed a big one.