Monkinetic Weblog

Memora is bringing last-yard type personal servers to Mac OS X. Interesting.

But whose is it? Doc Searls with more of his usual piercing analysis.

Jodi and I have decided to take a week-long roadtrip next week (actually starting this friday evening) to Niagara Falls, NY, and Toronto, Ontario. We're getting tips on seeing Canada from my only Canadian friend, Jim. (Thanks Jim!)

Brent Simmons posts his thoughts on Star Trek series V - Enterprise. He's coming from the same angle I am. I'm so excited about this, I'm working on reviving an old tradition among my friends of getting together weekly to watch Star Trek.

This is the layout for you, Mr. Client.

Jabber is rocking our office world right now. We downloaded the server, and got one up and running (in short order really) on a local Linux box.

Wittenspeak:

"OPP n.

Other People's Perl, which is generally unreadable and thus should be avoided at all costs. Example: "I'm not down with OPP."

Recent personal example: trying to understand the inner werkings of Bugzilla.

Then you must know the Jargon File.

One Man's jargonfile: Leonardonics, a glossary of micro-cultural references.

Reading an anthropological exposition of someone's micro-culture always puts me in a strange mood.

I'm downloading Mozilla onto my wife's Powerbook G3. She's been using Netscape 4.7, and I'm just hoping that Moz plays nice with her preferences. After browsing on her machine for a while I forgot how badly NS 4.7 renders some sites.

It's not fair... They give us an Amazing, fantastic, preview... and the movie doesn't come out until May 2002!!! Argh!

These are some of the most useful sources for resources related to Cocoa development on Stepwise. Stepwise is definitely the first place to go for a wide variety of Mac OS X development resources.

Don Norman, user experience guru, has written a fantastic article on what's wrong with home theater (meaning home entertainment). Don is the author of "The Design Of Everyday Things".

Jim has a little accident involving 'rm -fr'. Oouuch.

I'm working on a project where I've been introduced for the first time to the "proper" methods of software design, and am being chained (well, ok, metaphorically) to my desk to write Use Case Scenarios. I have to tell you, there are few tasks more boring than writing Use Case Scenarios. <yawn>. The fact that i got up at 5:30 this a.m. and was in the office at 6:45 a.m. does not help.

If you've seen Kubrick/Speilberg's "A.I.", I'd be interested in what you thought of it.

Software for Information Architects: from Argus Associates, where Louis Rosenfeld used to be a partner. This is good information, especially if you are in charge of UI or Web Architecture for a large information system or systems.

New Enterprise Pictures from Entertainment Tonight.

The final frontier has a new beginning. UPN's page on ST:Enterprise. Wednesdays 8/7c.