Monkinetic Weblog

I've added a new page to this site - for those of you on slow connections or just think this page is too "heavy", I've created redmonk:fastlog.

At Macworld SF, Steve Jobs layed out Apple's vision for itself and the future of the Macintosh. In a 15 minute section of his keynote, he described the digital lifestyle, where our Macs become "Digital Hubs" that route information and media between the new generation of digital devices that are becoming more and more commonplace.

Dave thinks Apple made the wrong choice in buying NeXT Computer back in late 1996, and basing Mac OS X on it.

U2 (!!!) are coming to Washington D.C. - the closest large venue, on June 14th. I am gripped with the need to shell out $85 ea. for tickets.

Don't know when the version changed, but version 0.2 of Aaron Hillegass's Powerpoint replacement BigShow is out and available for download. (Src is here) BigShow is GPL, "Mac OS X" only, and uses XML as an encoding format.