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Those of you out there that usually chat with me on AIM: we're making a lot of network changes today - I may or may not be able to get them to open up the AIM port today (soon though). If it's important email me.

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Now that we have ubiquitous networking at home, and broadband access to the'net, I'm going to get an IMAP server set up on my home G3, so we don't have to POP our mail from multiple machines.

"Dear Steve Ivy,

We regret to inform you that on Thursday, December 6th 2001, Kudosnet Technologies Inc. will be ceasing operations."

Brad Cox (inventor of Objective-C, the main language OS X applications are written in) is building Java Web Applications now. In this article he is complaining about the way most web application servers still treat pages as files. (see JSP)

I've started reading Andrew Sullivan's website pretty much daily. He's a fairly prolific blogger, now we just need to get him to make his posts linkable. Doc agrees.

OK, so this rocks as much as I thought it would. I finally got my Linksys 4-port-10/100-switch-broadband-router-wireless-access-point working this morning, and am blogging from my couch. I may have to put on a movie just to complete the experience.

Jim pointed me to the Jikes Bytecode Toolkit a bit ago... I agree with him that some awesome dev tools and documentation could be developed with this. Gonna have to check it out.

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.

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

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."

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.

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.

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

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.