Monkinetic Weblog

Jodi and I have tickets to tonight's taping of "Wait, Wait, Don't tell me!" in Tempe, AZ, our new home town.

Nick Denton links to a Spanish new site with some awesome information graphics on the goings-on in Afghanistan. Flash. Excellent information design.

Ok, so, like everyone else I hated Wes Crusher on ST:TNG (those who care will know what that means). But I must say that Wil Wheaton, Wes Crusher look-alike and all-around geeky dude, is a riot. And he has his own oft-updated blog and discussion group. Wil's been on my "Reads" list for months now - check him out.

Kevin Werbach has written a great article about the rules governing licensing of the radio spectrum, wireless ethernet (WiFi - 802.11b), spread-spectrum technologies, and other things.

David spots a great bumper sticker:

"Avoid meddling in affairs of dragons
for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup." Some of my readers may not know this is a clever send-up of a famous quote from J. R. R. Tolkien's classic "Fellowship Of The Ring": "Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger."

Dave says: "Work without coffee? My brain says no."

I'm finally taking a day to hack on a project I've been wanting to do for ages. Others have built RSS news aggregators before, and I don't suppose mine will be anything special, but I'm digging deeper into WebObjects, and hope to implement some cool ideas in my own news aggregator.

This post is coming to you courtesy our new sooper-dooper cable modem!

Now that we have our super-fast cable connection on one computer, I have to have it on all my computers!!! I want my wireless access point and router to get here so I can surf at high speeds from my couch!

This is turning out to be a Coen Brothers weekend. We watched Oh Brother Where Art Thou? the other day and we're watching The Big Lebowski tonight.

Well, we're finally getting high-speed internet access through Cox. And today we bought this little gem for our apartment. Finally my dream of getting online, anytime, anywhere in or around my home will be realized.

Dave writes:

_What if you could design, create and edit a stack in a single outline? That's what I have working. Instead of the runtime being Hypercard, the runtime is the Web. _

I have a problem with this... I learned to program using HyperCard and HyperTalk. What Dave has working is HyperTalk in an outline, with placeholders for GUI elements. Frontier has a great outliner. I won't dispute it. But an outliner is not the place to develop visual interfaces.

Heh. Dave is working on some way of including/setting form elements in his outlines. Looks like ASP. Why the new syntax, Dave? What happened to {usertalk.macro.syntax}?

Heh. Dave is working on some way of including/setting form elements in his outlines. Looks like ASP. Why the new syntax, Dave? What happened to {usertalk.macro.syntax}?

Matt Goyer says he could not work for U-Haul without going psycho...

Today we go to get our Arizona drivers licenses. They do things differently out here. Like there's no property tax on your car but it costs $120 to get a license plate.

I once told Hans that the frequency with which I post here is inversely proportionate to my job satisfaction. You be the judge.