This will be making headlines for weeks, and keep Washington pundits and talk-show hosts in work for months.

Yet Another Test of the Conversant XML-RPC Client

This article, and this one on DarwinLinux.com make for really good reading from a web developer's standpoint. Not a LOT of detail, but interesting nevertheless.

Stepwise is reporting on goings-on at Apple's World Wide Developer Conference.

http://wwdc2001.stepwise.com/SpecialCoverage/WWDC2001/

I'm not sure why, but if you're using Omniweb (site down right now) and can do without the toolbar, hiding it using the little clear button on the right side of the title bar seems to speed up the fetching end rendering of pages. Anyone out there want to venture a guess as to why?

Well, using a desktop client application that communicates with my content managed website (via XML-RPC) has got me posting again to Redmonk.Net. ;-)

I'm using my Java, Mac OS X Conversant Client to post today.

Working under deadline while learning a new toolset that seems to fight you at every turn really sucks.

This was posted from a Java-based Cocoa Mac OS X client, via XML-RPC.

We're working on a demo for a new project, and learning VB/COM/ASP and the IIS architecture all on the way. Oh boy!!

Current track from R.E.M.'s new album, Reveal. A lush, beautiful album. Other fav's: The Lifting, I've Been High, Reno, She Just Wants, Saturn Return... hell, tracks 1-6 basically.

Whew. It's been a while, but there are times you just have to write. I just read this lament by Richard Dawkins over Douglas Adams' death. Sad, poignant, funny. Reminders that Douglas Adams spoke and lived the same way he wrote. "...The depression uncannily being exactly the same shape as the puddle."

Raymond Kurtzweil's site is a great example of using innovative technology to enhance the true communication and concept of a site. KutzweilAI.net uses flash and The Brain to communicate concepts on Artificial Intelligence. KurzaweilAI has a really innovative glossary feature that links words in the site into a graphical, associative "brain". Worth checking out, for graphical, engineering, and philosophical interest.

My company is in the process of redesigning their website. Actually, my team is building it. Rather than pay for a lot of stock images, Compass decided to pay for a photo shoot with Compass employees as the guinea pigs. The result?

I'm disappointed to see Dave's immediate, and dire, warnings against lock-in in reference to Omni's Outliner.

This one's for you, Jim!

Have Browser, Will Travel

CamWorld

R.E.M. News

Mr.Barrett

Hack The Planet Prime

Bump

I'm slowly working towards a complete toolkit under OS X. BBEdit has come to OSX, and CVL is working pretty well, and I'm looking forward to getting Dreamweaver and Fireworks on OSX. Freehand for OS X is on it's way (May).

My all-time fav text editor just got better - in fact, it got Carbonized!

Today I'm looking to do something I never thought I would do, and am fairly certain that I'm risking hell-fire: I'm looking to install Microsft Visual Basic on my pc. The situation at work has gotten to the point where we are likely to be billed out as M$ platform web developers, so my only chance at survival is to see if there's a way to implement some time-tested ideas in a new (shudder) environment.