Monkinetic Weblog

Welcome to "Redmonk.Net"'s subsite for MacWorld Expo 2001!

"R.E.M." lead singer Michael Stipe (on the right) "Thinking Different"

The Hubble Heritage Project has an amazing image gallery consisting of photographs taken from the Hubble Space Telescope. This is incredible.

Wes Felter's new site: WhoWantsTo.CreateAStandard.Com!

My buddy "Jim" has his Edmunton Oilers weblog up-to-date again. If you're a hockey fan, or any kind of sports fan, check out how this site is run - it's an example of how REAL fans want to follow their teams.

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So I'm waiting for Userland "Frontier" to recieve a database update, through it's nifty "XML-RPC"-based update feature. Problem is, it's been months since I updated this copy of Frontier, and the update is 10500K. Yikes! Frontier's status message tells me that it's receiving the data, but doesn't tell me how far it's along in the process.

[via SiliconValley.com] Haiku News.

[via Greg] Watch out, Whoville - The Grinch is back, and he's packing!

I've been a graphic designer for years, and used Macromedia (previously Aldus) Freehand for may of those years. I used Adobe's Illustrator before and during that time, and I consistently like Freehand better. But...

WebDAV Spec.

And sets aside the November ruling by the Florida Supreme Court. The Florida court must now reconsider it's previous decision.

OK, now I'm blushing. A few weeks back I wrote a little tool for Radio Userland that takes a directory outline and outputs it in the format used by the Open Directory Project. Today I found DMOZDirectory linked from Radio Userland's directory, in the Community Tools section. Thanks guys!

Not caring much for the excuse for main navigation I had on this site before, I've added the tabs at the top of the page. This is my first Tabbed Interface - do they work for you?

#item1413"='href"http://jim.roepcke.com/2000/12/03None#item1413"' 12="" 2000="" href"http:="" jim.roepcke.com="">Jim points out that Radio Userland, once promised to be a free distribution, will actually have a moderate price once officially released.

Salon: Unchaining the Net - "Call it the 'free-network movement': Grass-roots hardware hackers are creating a wireless wonderland with megabits of connectivity for all."

I'm spending mine curled up with a B&W PowerMac G3, OSX, Apple's developer tools, and a Vermont Cookbook. Yum!

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Stepwise has a great archive of OpenStep and "Mac OS X" related articles. There are developer articles, product reviews, and news dating back to 1997. Check it out!

[via XMLRPC.com] This discussion is archived on Jim Roepcke's site.