Monkinetic Weblog

DW, re: Manila: "We use the tools, we're sick of how awful we are, but we also know that they're the best that are available anywhere. What a conundrum."

Major Kudos go out to Seth Dillingham and Macrobyte Resources, makers of fine content management systems and groupware for the web gourmet.

Seth, of Macrobyte and Conversant fame, also known to some as "The Optimizer", breaks a personal record. Way to go Seth!

Well, on my machine, http://www.redmonk.net/ points to this site. Woohoo! Thanks to Macrobyte and Network Solutions.

On Being A Geek

Per Rob O.'s recomendation, I ordered Jon Katz' book "Geeks" (From Barnes and Noble) and started reading it tonight. My wife just finished "Microserfs" , by Douglas Coupland, and loved it. She's already started again. Why mention Microserfs? Because like "Geeks", "Microserfs" deals with what makes me tick.

I loved "Microserfs". Douglas Coupland's writing is personal, funny, ironic, and touching, all without going completely overboard. As a longtime nerd many things in Coupland's book touched a nerve in me.

Katz' "Geeks" is turning out to be a whole different experience. "Geeks" takes the clean-LEGO world of "Microserfs" and rubs off the shine, exposing the pain and isolation of not fitting in, as well as the triumph of being indispensible to a new world of communication. Coupland's "Microserfs" is a novel, "Geeks" is simultaneously an expose and a manifesto, part reality-based television and part Declaration of Independence.

I've only gotten through the first two chapters in "Geeks". I think I'll have more to say later, but for now,

Ciao

--Steve