Monkinetic Weblog

mmmm, feeling good.

I'm home from the dentist, one incisor's nerve poorer, and just took my first dose of Vicodin. If you've ever been on Vicodin, you'll know that I'm expecting to lose interest in typing soon, so I'm going to post while I can.

Hi- if you want to see me at work, check out my webcam. See ya round the 'net!

I am dead tired. My bout with dental pain last night drained me, on top of depriving me of three hours of much needed rest. Concentration is difficult.

From Apple's OSX Public Beta - Extreme Internet page:

"Nate" and I spent 5 hours one night building this... LEGO rocks.

Well, I made it through the night without another dose of Vicodin... I guess there are advantages to not having a nerve. <grin>

I know the look and feel on this site isn't as... "interesting" as the one on my usual site, http://redmonk.editthispage.com, but give it time. I'll be redoing this site shortly, and I may even move redmonk.net here. Who knows?

XMLMag:

"The important thing about XML is that it means that your software can be replaced. Now this may not sound like an advantage, unless you work for a software vendor who's being sued for antitrust, but it actually is an advantage for everyone. Because users have choice, there are fewer reasons for them to wait. And we can have diversity. Not only will there be desktop editing tools for Windows, but there will be equivalent tools for people who use Macs. Maybe someday Unix will be a great writing platform, or maybe something revolutionary and wonderful will come along that no one has ever heard of that you'll want to use to edit your Web site. In the software business you never can tell what's coming next, and with open interfaces the new things can easily be compatible with the old. " I've been selling this idea for 3 years - Dave says it well.

This is a Lego Mac Plus I created some months back. It's been a fixture on my NT machine ever since. I got my first Legos at age 4, and was an avid builder until my late-teens. Even now when I get a chance I pull out the small box of several hundred Legos (those that survived my childhood and that of my two brothers) and have some fun.

I'm using Conversant's builtin NNTP server to post this message. NNTP isn't a complicated protocol, but it's rare to see this level of integration in a Content Management System. Hats off to Seth Dillingham and Macrobyte Resources for their work and creativity.

Conversant is pretty powerful. Confusing at times, but powerful. I changed templates on this page, now I get a weblog editting form on my home page. Yay!

Day two on the new Redmonk Conversant-powered weblog. So far my day sucks, starting at 2 am this morning when I awoke with a throbbing pain in a tooth. It kept me up til almost 5 am. So now I have an appointment for a root canal this afternoon. Ugh.

Welcome to my new conversant site. Ok, it's actually an old site. I started this site a while back when looking into conversant, and here I am again!

Interesting conversation with "Jim Roepcke" about writing CMSes this morning on AIM. Lots of issues involved - more than most people realize.

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This entry comes to you courtesy of "Radio Userland". testing 123

I'm ready to start coding again.

Nate looks like he's going to start blogging... but he's rooting for Alberto, the hurricane that is on it's way here to take advantage of my leaky roof. This cannot be good.

I wonder if Nate got any hits yesterday from "Redmonk.Net". I don't know if anyone reads this site anymore, since it's hardly ever updated (but I'm trying!)