Monkinetic Weblog

Ok, so, having really learned nothing from my first venture out on the Green Machine (affectionately monikered by it's current owner), I got the bike home last night and took it out for another jaunt. This one was a slightly longer trek - about 5 miles, all in the name of filling up the tires. The filling station down the street from me only had the for-pay ($0.50) air pumps, and I wasn't about to pay for air.

[via Scripting News] The page is too stupid.

I just took possession of a bike I'm considering buying from my best friend - a Haro Impulse mountain bike, circa 1996. Of course, I couldn't resist - a couple hours later (just now) I took it out for a spin. MAN am I out of shape! :(

Apple is providing a source code patch for applications using Cocoa's Document Architecture. The functionality will be patched system-wide in a Mac OS X update later on. This is the first time I've seen this kind of thing from Apple. Right on.

California Public Service Announcement.

Anyone know if Terminal Services are still available under Mac OS X?

Some light reading today. I'm working on a set of build scripts that rely on the behavior of bash; running them in my previous favorite shell - tcsh - produced less-than-desirable results. So, I found bash for OS X here and installed it.

Jonathan "Wolf" Rentsch in Tidbits: Webobjects: WO Is Me... Robert Scoble's YOUR MESSAGE HERE IS THE VOICE OF THE DEVIL is a rant-and-a-half.

Looks like Dave Winer has finally gotten over Internet Explorer.

Today is my wife Jodi's birthday! Happy Birthday honey! You can wish Jodi happy birthday too!

We're looking into Redhat's Interchange eCommerce product. We have a possible client with a limited budget. Using an open source product like Interchange, running on Linux and PostgreSQL, we should be able to create a solution for them with $0 in software licenses, as opposed to $30,000 for MS CommerceServer, SQLServer, Windows 2000 Server, etc...

Via HTP: The Man Who Bought The Internet.

Fortune sees: Savvy CEO cleverly manipulates the system to make mega bucks, with a guaranteed revenue stream.

I see: freedom online being eroded by corporate interests.

Sid 0.5 has been released for download here. Coolest new feature: Labels. Sid can download and save a list of your conversation's labels, allowing you to set the label for a message in Sid, rather than having to edit it again in the browser to set the label.

This weekend I was encouraged to check out Locke's writings on government, specifically the Second Treatise Of Civil Government. This post is so I (and others) can find it again later.

I've never really considered myself an information architect, but I've done quite a bit of work that would fall into that category over the years. Jesse James Garrett has an excellent article titled A visual vocabularyfor describing information architecture and interaction design. I've just printed it out and will be perusing offline for a few days.

Steve here, coming at you from the new Apple Store in Tyson's Corner, Virginia. (Posting from a TiBook over Airport - drool drool drool)

U2 is playing at Washington DC's MCI Center tonight. Gues who's going to be there? ;-)

Sid is moving along again, now that the interface to Conversant's labels feature is finished. You can now select a label for your post from the popup. Labels are cached and saved, so you only have to reload them if you know they've changed.

A week ago, after months of working on smoke-and-mirrors demos of our current project, we were allowed to actually go to work on a functional spike of the process - an end-to-end prototype. Yesterday we got it running. Browser to web app server to application to back-end, encompassing two different operating systems and at least four tiers.

Sigh. Sid was just getting exciting... I had the linking code working the way I wanted it to, I had done some minor re-architecting which had made adding functionality easier, and things were going swimmingly.