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Conversant now has event calendars! Way to go Macrobyte!

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

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.

is coming along well. Conversant's style sheet editor is great. The form interface takes a lot ofthe guesswork out of "what do I put where?"

My name is Steve Ivy, and I run redmonk.net. I'm a web developer by trade, formerly of U-Haul, Compass Technology Management, CBN, and ArtLab Europe. My unofficial title could be web architect, designer, and Conversant/XML/R.E.M. evangelist.

I've spread the template around the site a bit... Now I'm squashing GUI bugs and finding the remnants of old tempalte lying around.

image for site

This is a test page. This is test content.

Doc Searls has an article on Jabber, an XML-based chat client and server, in the Sept. Linux Journal. Looks like good, technical reading.

MacFixit, resource extraordinaire for Mac in trouble, has started a Mac OSX page. Here's to all you black belts out there: Welcome to the future, and don't give up!

sorry about the mess. i was editting temapltes when i broke them. still trying to fix it.

Resetting Templates.

I love seeing what others are doing on the web. At the main Free-Conversant site, MacroByte has a list of other sites that are using Conversant. Check 'em out! You may learn something too!

This is great. I want a copy of that chart.

Anyone doing Java development and need a good resource on OO design? Try this PDF. Trust me.

Soulwax - More Than This: "Working hard putting the skin on baloney."