Monkinetic Weblog

As a Christmas present, a friend gave me a license to Objective Development's Launchbar. This is the coolest little utility on OS X - and I'm even more happy to use it now that they've made the file scanning process much faster. Thank you!!

Mark Pilgrim is doing something cool with his weblog posts: by searching the posts for HTML CITE tags, he now has a view of his posts sorted by who he was citing. Very useful. I don't think he needed the more-semantic-than-thou snarkiness to make his point though.

Jodi got me some of my favorite presents this year. We're a bit tight, but she found some great gifts!

Another thing tht Jodi got me for Christmas that I am totally stoked about:

Jeneane Sessum is looking for a palmtop device that is designed for blogging. In the comments, someone suggests Danger's HipTop (sold by T-Mobile as the SideKick).

Dave is wondering at the snow in NYC. Here in Phoenix it was 60&degree. :-) No snow here.

Mery Christmas to one and all, and here's looking forward to a Peaceful 2003!

Jodi's family (parents and younger brother) just got into town. SkyHarbor Airport was (as to be expected) a madhouse, but we successfully managed to find them, reunite them with their luggage, and get them home. Since being out here, we've reallly missed family, so it's really really nice to have them here!

According to Dave, the Register is reporting thatMicrosoft may want to buy Macromedia, makers of Flash, Freehand, Dreamweaver, and other graphics and web applications. Evidently they want Flash MX, so it can become YAJK (Yet Another Java Killer) on the web.

Kuro5hin has a short blurb on the about-to-be new Senate Majority Leader, Sen. Bill Frist.

I'm going to kick myself for this later I'm sure (for making commitments I can't, or won't, keep) but I think this next year I'm going to try to sit at the computer less, but get more done while I'm there. This includes blogging, since it's the only writing practice I get, and I need to focus outwards sometimes.

I composed my R.E.M. and Jesus Christ post in OmniOutliner (for which I still need to get a license - outlines of < 20 lines are useless) and it reminded me once again of my love of writing in an outliner. I really would like to have a "compose-in-outline" mode in Sid one day.

Greg replied to let me know that the R.E.M. song I was looking for last night is in fact a cover of a Big Star song by Alex Chilton, from the "Third / Sister Lovers" album.

Well, Jodi and I saw the new Lord Of The Rings movie, The Two Towers, yesterday. It was great. Amazing, actually. There were a few discrepancies from the book, but none that I thought really detracted from the story. More action, darker, faster moving - like the book.

I've been following the development of Daniel Berlinger's None pretty closely, since I'm the author of a weblog editor called Sid. I imagine my users (both of them!) will want RSD support (I know I do).

I got my R.E.M. Fan Club Holiday Single today. It features two tracks, one of which is an actual Christmas song of unknown origin, called Jesus Christ. The other is called No Matter What.

I suspect I'm turning into a not-very-good weblogger. There's a certain thought process, a certain tendency, that I've had before and now seem to lack.

Adam Curry is having performance problems with Radio Userland, too. (Adam is on Mac OS X I believe). Dave's suggestion:

Aquaminds has just released NoteTaker 2003, a most cool outliner and organizer. NoteTaker lets you define sections and pages (outlines) in your notebook document, maintains a table of contents (also an outline) and lets you drag most any kind of file into it. It also help you maintain quite a list of metadata, and record audio bits too (which you can then drag out of the outline as mp3 files). This is really cool, and I'm going to explore some more.

We're finally getting around to decorating our recently purchased tree tonight. I spent all night last night getting the darn thing to stand up (more or less) straight (stupid live tree -)) and getting the lights on.